[X4U] (POT) Graphic Artist Question

[Wayne Wilkin]

Your kidding right? An iMac w/2 gigs of ram. The OS and In-Design and  
or Quark, by itself will eat that right up. Not to mention, ever want  
to expand? Forget it!
Design stations need the ability to be upgraded and the ability add  
more storage, easily! Maybe your right about some of this, it's a  
little more, but myself working in this field as a designer and now a  
tech support specialist still in the industry, all I know is I get  
far lesser complaints about slow-downs etc, the kind you would get  
with a 2/gig iMac.

On Aug 3, 2007, at 7:31 PM, nk wrote:

> I know the impulse is to go for Max firepower, but the fact is that  
> 2D illustration can be done with far less than a Dual core Xeon  
> with 8 gigs of RAM...THAT kind of a rig is intended for 3D  
> animation, video, multimedia.
>
> Lots of places bang out the pages with less powerful hardware and  
> do just fine.
>
> prbly an Intel iMac would do it, or a more modest mac pro. 2 gigs  
> of RAM would be more than plenty. Unless you're having them do lots  
> of heavy duty high end retouching, this kind of rig will do fine.
>
> adobe's creative suite is standard now. lots of places still use  
> quark, but if you're firing up a department, might as well go with  
> the inevitable standard now.
>
>
>
> nk
>
>
>
> On Aug 3, 2007, at 4:23 PM, Russell McGaha wrote:
>
>> Yeah;
>> 	I probably should have given just a LITTLE more info; I had  
>> intended to but forgot.  I'm looking for both Hardware and  
>> Software recommendations.  They will be doing [at first anyway] a  
>> printed catalog redo that's a couple of hundred pages currently,  
>> and with the new pictures of the products, will likely be MUCH  
>> more when they finish.
>
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