[X Newbies] Do I need more ram?

[Ed Wiser]

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No need to scan photo's at 600dpi. you can drop it down to 150 dpi for
printing and everything will work much better.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kirk McElhearn" <kirklists at wanadoo.fr>
To: "Mac OS X Newbies" <X-Newbies at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: [X Newbies] Do I need more ram?


> On 1/20/03 23:58, "David" <whelp at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > I just bought a desktop G4 with 512 megs of ram. When I scan pictures
> > at 600 dpi using Vuescan I usually have to restart my computer since
> > none of my other programs will open after I've scanned a few pictures.
> > I have used Vuescan's "release memory" feature to no avail.  It appears
> > as though I don't have enough memory. Is this possible, or is the
> > scanning software to blame? Should I buy more ram?
>
> That sounds like a VueScan problem. While 512 MB is not a lot of RAM, it
is
> certainly sufficient. You shouldn't have that kind of problem. I have 640
MB
> RAM on my new iBook, and can run a dozen applications with no problem.
BTW,
> I recently tried the demo of VueScan and had no such problem.
>
> Kirk
>
>
>
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