Comments on: 64 Bit: The best $300 (or less!) you can spend this year? http://blogs.adobe.com/genesisproject/2009/03/64_bit_the_best_300_or_less_yo.html A blog for beginners in the creative space. Beginner to intermediate tips, tricks and tutorials on several Adobe products, especially After Effects, Premiere Pro and Photoshop. Who knows what else! Thu, 23 May 2013 12:23:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Nick Marques http://blogs.adobe.com/genesisproject/2009/03/64_bit_the_best_300_or_less_yo.html#comment-651 Nick Marques Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:38:28 +0000 http://blogs.adobe.com/genesisprojectdev/2009/03/64_bit_the_best_300_or_less_yo.html#comment-651 I’ve been running CS4 Master Collection on a Q6600 (Core 2 Quad) with 8GB RAM on Windows 7 Beta and it is very fast. CS4 works fine on Windows 7 Beta despite some GUI bugs.

[DR - great news. Obviously, I am not advocating everyone run out and try the Windows 7 beta, but early indications are that Windows 7 will be a winner OS and that is good news for content creators everywhere. Thanks for the input and comments Nick.]

]]> By: Topher Welsh http://blogs.adobe.com/genesisproject/2009/03/64_bit_the_best_300_or_less_yo.html#comment-650 Topher Welsh Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:04:12 +0000 http://blogs.adobe.com/genesisprojectdev/2009/03/64_bit_the_best_300_or_less_yo.html#comment-650 I agree… it is cheap to go that route, but if I am gonna make an upgrade, buy new RAM and all that… i am going to wait until I can upgrade my motherboard to a Dual Quad Core processor motherboard.

[DR - Hi Topher, thanks for your comments. I think you miss the essence of what I'm saying. I'm making an assumption that you have a decent computer or better and that we're all looking for an inexpensive way to really improve our performance out of Adobe CS4. To that end, $300 will deliver that. If you take a new mobo, new CPU's, etc., you're basically buying a new system. Would that be better - you bet! My point though is that a few $$$ can go a long way in improving performance for CS4.

Check out Topher's tutorials BTW...]

]]> By: Brian http://blogs.adobe.com/genesisproject/2009/03/64_bit_the_best_300_or_less_yo.html#comment-649 Brian Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:04:17 +0000 http://blogs.adobe.com/genesisprojectdev/2009/03/64_bit_the_best_300_or_less_yo.html#comment-649 Very interesting. I still have 32-bit Vista on my desktop and would love to upgrade. One of the things that have been holding me back is a worry about hardware compatibility. I admit that I haven’t spent the time to make sure my video card, processor, etc. are compatible, but just the possibility seems to be a barrier to entry for me.

I have a 2 or 3 year old computer and at this point it seems worthwhile to put that $300 toward a new computer that would sport a quad-core (instead of dual-core) processor.

As usual, food for thought, though.

Thanks!
Brian

[DR - Brian, you bring up a very good point in terms of hardware support. It does require a little bit of research, but I think that's a fairly straightforward process and it seems that MOST (but not all) hardware is compatible for Vista.

To me though, the benefits are worth the investment in time (and possibly $300). Thanks for your comment.]

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