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[tony_m]

I just got back from hiking the Sierras with my recently acquired digital SLR. It was a fantastic trip, but I've run into a problem

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[atwookie]

Drop as much ram into it as you can afford. Even for day to day tasks, less than 1GB of ram on Mac OS is unacceptable. I do some graphic design and often have InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator all running at once, in addition to a firefox instance with 15+ tabs open at any given time (often times more), and then generally iTunes and Adium, and it doesn't crawl. (I have 2GB. I'm too cheap to buy 4GB to have it only recognize 3GB)

I believe current Macbook Pros and the iMacs can handle up to 4GB of ram, while the Macbooks will take 2x2GB sims, but only recognize 3 GB. They might recognize 4 as of now. You might try on Macrumors.com's forums, as they're pretty good about knowing how much ran they can stuff into one.

[trackstar99]

For my own needs, Photoshop on a MacBook Pro 17" works just swell. I don't feel I need the mass editing and sorting features of other software-just tweaking things for web or print via PS.

[trackstar99]

I mean really . . . a pro photographer once told me out of a roll of 36 (in the good old days of film this is) he would get one or two good photos. Do you really need such complex mass editing? What are you doing with all these photos? For my fine art prints, I accept that out of 30-50 shots five will be things I will really care about and I normally trash the others.

[trackstar99]

I shoot with an EOS 5D . . . not to be arrogant, but I can normally look at previews in the open function of the Apple OS and determine then and there what I want and what I don't . . . but then, I kinda preview in the camera too.

[dsign]

This reminds me - I've wanted to try out the demo for Corel PHOTO-PAINT (I'm assuming there's one out there) and see how it stacked up against Photoshop. One interesting Epinions review rended Paint Shop Pro, and made a case for PHOTO-PAINT instead, positively comparing it against Photoshop.

I've heard there's a version of PHOTO-PAINT out there for Linux (that just ran under wine)...

[tony_m]

Interesting note about Photo-Paint working under Wine. I will have to check that out for curiosity's sake, but that still leaves me with no color management.

[medicalfairy]

I've used Adobe Lightroom, and while it is somewhat hardware-intensive it's not as bad as I thought it was going to be on a 1ghz G4. It's a really nice piece of software for photos.