How Obsolete Are You??

[Carusoswi]

1.6 gHz is slow, I'll grant you, and 30 GB is small by today's standards (although you have augmented with ample additional HD storage. As far as everything else goes, I'm not certain I agree with you. What's so obsolete about PCI cards and IDE drives if you are editing photos? I don't get that. My machine is as old as yours, although it runs at 3.0 gHz. I have 2M memory, and have upgraded my internal (IDE) drives to afford 750 GB with another 3 TB via external USB/Firewire drives.

For just about anything I need to do from photo editing to video or audio real time recording, my machine is plenty fast enough.

You want faster, that's fine (and, honestly, I don't blame you if you are working at 1.6 gHz), and, again, the rest of your box, obsolete or not, will likely sit idle after you buy the new computer.

Just sayin'

Caruso

Originally Posted by JohnGalt_ny

or more directly, your computer?

Now, three years into photography as a hobby, I've come to the point where I need to upgrade my home system to more adequately work on RAW and Tiff files. My current system is stable and I like it BUT the CPU just isn't up to heavy photo editing.

Anyway, with WEin7 going RTM in October, it will be time to move so I'm looking at my current stuff and here's what has changed in the 4 years since I bought my non-gaming "state of the art" machine.

CPU = AMD running at 1.6Ghz, single core (OBSOLETE)
1MG in 2 DIMM Slots -- PC 2700 DDR SDRAM 184 pin 333 (OBSOLETE)
30 GB C: Drive --
320 GB E: Drive through IDE interface (IDE OBSOLETE)
AGP slot (OBSOLETE)
3 PCI slots (OBSOLETE)
VIA S3 Unichrome IGP -- OBSOLETE can't display 1680 x 1050
2 front USB 1.0 ports -- OBSOLETE
Power Supply 200w -- Woefully Inadequate now
4 USB 2.0 ports -- Still OK
2 Firewire ports -- still OK ??
120GB and 350 GB WD External Drives -- Still OK

Photoshop 7.0 - Obsolete but I love it and know it well. CS 4 upcoming
Various PS 7 Plugins -- To Be Seen
HP Photosmart 760 Printer - LOVE it but Win 7 ?
Visioneer 3200 Scanner -- Probably out of here.
DPP, EOS Utilities and Zoom Browser -- probably OK
LR2 - OK

Apparently the only thing with more obsolete components than me is my faithful Desktop.

and You all?