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Building a Graphics desktop system

by lvirden Mar 3, 2005 3:26AM PST

A friend asked me last night if I knew of resources for someone who was thinking of building their very first desktop system.

He is into digital photography, and wants a system which will run things like Photoshop and some of the image manipulation programs that Nikkon, etc. include with their cameras.

He wants to keep the price exceedingly low - definitely below $1000. Being retired, the lower the better of course.

He's most familar with Windows XP. He's wanting a lot of disk - perhaps 2 drives; one for images and one for the OS, etc. With Photoshop, I'm also guessing he's going to want a lot of memory.

What else should he keep in mind?

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How about this one?

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Mar 3, 2005 4:02AM PST

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=PJ473AAR

My dad has this exact model. Seems to meet most of what you listed.

Bob

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/\ Agree with Bob /\

by AInTeL Mar 3, 2005 9:07AM PST

That's a great offer - should run XP perfectly, and has more than enough space for your friend to ever even worry about it. Also has DVD/CD writer for him to burn his photographs, ETC...

-AInTeL

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what about PhotoShop?

by funkid7 Mar 16, 2005 10:05PM PST

PS 7.02 is an expensive software. Photo Shop CS is the latest version.
At the Dell computer site; I was able to purchase every piece of hardware and add-on software in one quick stop! It all arrived within 5 days express mail.
With my workstation, I got PhotoShop, games, Full vers. Microsoft works, Macromedias Freehand 10 and all the extras! only one monthly bill and I paid it off early, with no penalty to my Dell account!

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