AMD K2 400 CPU (boxed) 1xDimm 128Mb SDram PC100, 100MHz
I only mentioned the most important features. Anyway, I'm still not too sure about the CPU because I get a lot of different suggestions. Now I do know that lots of RAM is more important then a faster CPU when it comes to photo editing. Those of you who say that the AMD would do just fine make sense but so does John Pennington...
I am skeptical. It depends on the size of your images even more than on your RAM. The uni film scanner does 3k x 2k pixels @ 24 bit, which are fine on a PIII-450 with 100MB RAM and ImageMagick. Fine with gimp as well, but slower. gimp is not made to go easy on resources - esp RAM. It creates *HUMANGOUS* swap files in its temp directory - they can reach 800MB for a net worth of 8MB of image data - and that by just rotating 90 degrees... Basically, gimp is a slowish program unless you're talking eating into memory :-) At least it's not like photoshop on a crapintosh - lose your unsaved data when it tells you out-of-mem when there's 2 x that of the image size left. I'd still be extremely careful comparing gimp to photoshop though... You need sufficient disk space for the gimp swap files, and of course your images. For a 5kx10k monochrome (i.e. 1bit per pixel!) image gimp bombs out stone-dead on above mentioned PIII. For that kind of 512x768 crap you get from a digitised foto lab when you have your film developed any computer will be sufficient. Volker -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/