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To: Road Walker who wrote (104641)	6/20/2000 7:02:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

John - I think that your discussion is interesting, if unpopular... I had been fairly comfortable with a couple of older machines to do most routine things - a 200MHz Pentium, a dual-200 PPro workstation, both years old. Then I started processing pictures. I quickly figured out that I needed a lot more horsepower, RAM and disk space, and added an 800MHz PIII with a 30GB hard drive and 512MB RAM. It is just barely tolerable. A detail scan can use up 100MB of RAM in a heartbeat, and doing minor fixup on an image of that size can take several minutes even with an 800MHz processor. If there was a dual 1GHz workstation, or even a quad, I would go for it...