On 2005-10-24 18:35:29 -0400, "Ed Margiewicz" said:

recently purchased an epson 4900 scanner for some of my 4x5 and 6x6
slides. My old dell computer (about 5 years old) freezes up with file
sizes over 600k. If I would like to make large prints (30 or 40 or
bigger) from scanned slides what would I need or look for in a new
computer to handle such large file sizes. I am guessing file sizes up
to 500mb. Any help or suggestions are appreciated.

Ed M
www.traquilimages.com

More RAM and more DISK space. If you are considering buying a new
computer (any you should.. a 5 year old Dell is a little long in the
tooth) I recommend multiple drives rather than one huge drive. If you
buy a windows machine, consider at least two internal drives and
perhaps three. As a general rule, on Windows, I have one drive for
Windows and the applications as well as the Windows swap drive (this
can be relatively small, 40 GB's or smaller, but it should be fast,
7200 RPM or better. This is often difficult with a small drive as they
are usually low end slow ones. I partition the second drive, the first
is a 20 GB partition just for my photo softwares swap space.. ie Adobe
Photoshop. The second partiion holds all my non photo data.. ie
documents, mp3's etc. The thrid drive only holds digital images. I
do a similar arrangement on my Mac. Although the OS swap does not get
used as heavily.


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Jim