Hi. I've just upgraded to 384 MB and that's the amount of RAM I will settle for Windows ME because, among other things, the Cacheman program suggests that this is the minimum amount of RAM needed for performing a conservative swap file usage. As far as I understand, more than this is a waste of everything, since Windows ME hardly recognizes it (Please correct me if I'm wrong). Regards.

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I have no problems editing photos with 192mb, so 384 should work great. I like to reboot before using photo software so system resources are at their peak.

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along with _at least_ a 512mb upgrade you should consider moving your photoshop scratch file to another physical disk in your computer if you can. This scratch file is similar to the windows swapfile but for photoshop use only. Moving it to a disk other than the one your OS, swapfile and images reside on can improve performance drastically.

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First of all, get the 512. second, it sounds like you are doing commercial artwork, serious photography, or working with large scans. 1 gig for a graphic is huge and it is going to be slow especially in high color settings. I hope you have a powerful graphics card. Some graphics programs allow you to have the preferences set to save after each alteration or after groups of alterations. Saving after each change can slow down progress, also refreshing the screen after changes can slow down progress. Are you sending these out to be printed or do you have an extremely good printer? Graphics settings can be reduced to 300 dpi or to match the resolution of your printer without loss of clarity (unless you are sending them out to be professionally printed then you should check on the highest resolution). Even a good dye printer is only about 300dpi and an 8.5x11 at 300 dpi is only about 8 megapixel.

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Hi... I teach programs and graphics for personal and professional usage. I have never heard of anyone using any that high in bytes. I did once when I first got my digital video camera try to create movies and those were in the g's. I have a two year old compaq with 450Mhz and 348Ram.... I run together and work back and forth between these programs, all open at the same time... Outlook Express, PhotoShop6, PhotoDeluxe3, PaintShopPro7, Ulead gif animator4,sometimes 3, Photo Impact6, Harms sTile... and yahoo messenger and msn messenger. Without a problem. I mainly use jpg or gif format. Images that contain real people I set the compression to the very best quality. Images that do not contain real people I take it down a tad. You cannot tell the difference in quality for the web. If I plan to print the image I will use best quality compression. Curious what progam you are using to send your image to once it is scanned. I do know that MOM.... was sending some massively huge ones that were sent to an odd program. Try opening your graphics program and import the image from the scanner. I think images that size will only fill your puter up and are actually a waste of bytes. I could be wrong tho lol... CherokeeCandy

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