Digital BW, The Print

Folks,
   
  I work as a small business computing consultant and have a degree in Professional Photography.  The company I work for is a Dell dealer, a Microsoft Certified Partner and a VAR (Value Added Reseller).  Dells are not mass produced they are CUSTOM MADE TO ORDER.  
   
  On Thursday I speced out a computer for a client to edit video.  Originally they were looking at a Dell Optiplex, I suggested instead a Dell Precision 380 workstation.  The Precision 380 has SATA RAID built in and ECC memory.  It is hard to beat the price that Dell is asking for made to order machines.
   
  If I were building my own machine for Graphics/Photo imaging I would use an AMD dual core processor, 3.0 GB/sec SATA RAID (5 or 10) and a motherboard that can use ECC memory.  I also would use at least 2GB of RAM with each stick being 1GB each.
   
  Stan Colson
  
 
  Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 21:44:17 -0000
From: "garyphoto6" 
Subject: New PC recommendations

Hello,
I am planning on buying a new PC to use with PS CS2 and an Epson 
R2400 and was looking for recommendations on Processor and memory. I 
want to get something that is fast enough but will not break the bank. 
Dell has Pentium 4 and Pentium D and Xeon. Does anyone have experience 
with these and what speed of processor is necessary? 
Thanks,
Gary W


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