March 9th, 2009 in We were talking today about system requirements for Photojunction. Someone had suggested that users need at least 3GB of RAM to run PJ Remix and Photoshop at the same time – which of course they do when they’re creating hi-res exports. On our website however we say 1GB is OK, and 2+GB is recommended.
As someone who’d only just created a set of layouts for a demo on my bog-standard MacBook Pro with 2GB of RAM, and thought, “Gee, that was quick”, I was surprised at the comment. Especially since all PJ is doing during export is feeding Photoshop a script.
So we talked, and thought, Yes, in the real world, the more RAM the better. I did add more to my old machine. But as I’d just confirmed PJ doesn’t need it. We also like to upgrade our computers every couple of years, because the world is moving on. But many of our staff work on hardware that’s older than that.
What else? We could all spend more on a longer list, but in today’s economy we do need to work out whether we really need to spend the money.
Cheers, Ian
NB. A small percentage of Windows users have memory related crashes and the more memory you have, the fewer of those crashes. Having said that our development environment has just been upgraded, and they have promised me personally that they’ve addressed this inherited bug! – Danny
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