Jan 4, 2014, 15:09
My computer is giving up, very slow. I'm taking RAW photos. Has any one any suggestions as to what to replace my computer with? I don't really want to go over £500. I know nothing about computers.
(Jan 4, 2014, 15:46)EdMak Wrote: [ -> ]A new Hard Drive or an additional one, if you have a spare bay, and more Memory, is the way I would go. Both are now very cheap to buy. Is there a local shop you can ask for a quote. MotherBoard would perhaps dictate parameters. £100/130 would do a lot. My thoughts. Ed
(Jan 5, 2014, 06:29)EdMak Wrote: [ -> ]Run this,
http://www.crucial.com/uk/systemscanner/
It will tell you what your Motherboard will support, and an idea of prices, I would not go past them. Ed.
(Jan 5, 2014, 06:22)John M Wrote: [ -> ]Raw photographs are HUGH. Get the biggest hard drive you can afford. My first digital camera gave files of around 2 Mbytes my current one gives files of nearer 30 Mbytes. My next camera will give even larger files, I expect.Thanks I go for as much as I can get memory wise
Lack of RAM will slow you computer down more than a slow processor will, so go for as much RAM as you can afford.
Next thing to think of is that your hard drive will fail one day. Mine did and lost me 2,000-odd photographs. I now have an external hard drive as well and back up my internal hard drive once a week to the external hard drive.
So, I am agreeing with Ed - get a large hard drive and lots of memory - either as an upgrade for your existing computer or as a new one - and get a back-up drive as well.
(Jan 4, 2014, 15:09)gerainte Wrote: [ -> ]My computer is giving up, very slow. I'm taking RAW photos. Has any one any suggestions as to what to replace my computer with? I don't really want to go over £500. I know nothing about computers.
(Jan 4, 2014, 15:09)gerainte Wrote: [ -> ]My computer is giving up, very slow. I'm taking RAW photos. Has any one any suggestions as to what to replace my computer with? I don't really want to go over £500. I know nothing about computers.
(Jan 7, 2014, 12:49)WesternGuy Wrote: [ -> ]You note that you are using Windows 7. My questions is 32 bit of 64 bit, because if you are going to add memory, your operating system will determine the total amount of memory that you can install in addition to what you already have.
WesternGuy
(Jan 7, 2014, 12:56)Wall-E Wrote: [ -> ](Jan 7, 2014, 12:49)WesternGuy Wrote: [ -> ]You note that you are using Windows 7. My questions is 32 bit of 64 bit, because if you are going to add memory, your operating system will determine the total amount of memory that you can install in addition to what you already have.
WesternGuy
The 'Crucial' website will take that into account when it recommends additional memory.
(Jan 6, 2014, 15:40)johnytrout Wrote: [ -> ]I just bought my wife a Toshiba laptop with 8MB ram with a 1 Terabite hard drive for around £325 which will house all her photos.
You can get external drives 1T or 2Terabite quite cheap now which plug into the USB port...... They should hold more than enough photos
Hi do you mind telling me what model and where from?
TA
(Jan 7, 2014, 15:37)gerainte Wrote: [ -> ](Jan 6, 2014, 15:40)johnytrout Wrote: [ -> ]I just bought my wife a Toshiba laptop with 8MB ram with a 1 Terabite hard drive for around £325 which will house all her photos.Gerainte, please note you need Gigabytes of ram not megabytes, that's gb not mb.
You can get external drives 1T or 2Terabite quite cheap now which plug into the USB port...... They should hold more than enough photos
Hi do you mind telling me what model and where from?
TA
The computer has to hold the image selected for editing in ram and as you know RAW images take a lot of memory. so get as much ram as you can afford in gb, I would recommend at least 8gb for image processing and at least a dual core processor.
One of the reasons there are so many choices out there is because one size definitely does not fit all, A workstation desktop is not the ideal solution for image processing as is not a gaming PC.
Gord
(Jan 9, 2014, 08:52)Artoorthethird Wrote: [ -> ]You could try something much cheaper - Norton Utilities - Software that will return your PC to near as new condition. It gets rid of loads of clutter on the hard drive, and all the start up programs that have found their way into your start up folder. I use it all the time, (run it once a week) and my 5 year old PC is as fast as new.
Cost is around £30. You could try the Norton Symantec website to download a trial version.
But believe me, the full paid for version is well worth having, even on your new PC if you go that way.
(Jan 9, 2014, 10:20)Wall-E Wrote: [ -> ](Jan 9, 2014, 08:52)Artoorthethird Wrote: [ -> ]You could try something much cheaper - Norton Utilities - Software that will return your PC to near as new condition. It gets rid of loads of clutter on the hard drive, and all the start up programs that have found their way into your start up folder. I use it all the time, (run it once a week) and my 5 year old PC is as fast as new.
Cost is around £30. You could try the Norton Symantec website to download a trial version.
But believe me, the full paid for version is well worth having, even on your new PC if you go that way.
I haven't gone NEAR any Norton software in a number of years.
I used to be a subscriber to their Anti-Virus product, but stopped when it became bloat-ware, and slowed my XP machine to a crawl.
I now use AdvancedCare for optimization, AVG Free for Anti-Virus, and SpyBot Search and Destroy to look for browser exploits. None of those cost anything. You *can* upgrade to their 'pro' levels, but the freebies work fine for me.
(Jan 10, 2014, 18:15)gerainte Wrote: [ -> ]Since you will need Norton Utilities within a few months even on a new computer (depends how many programs invite themselves into your start-up directory, with your knowledge or otherwise) you could consider buying Utilities now and hopefully it will work wonders on you existing PC. I rely on Norton Utilities all the time on 2 PCs and both run RAW files (21-Mega-pixel) fine.(Jan 9, 2014, 10:20)Wall-E Wrote: [ -> ](Jan 9, 2014, 08:52)Artoorthethird Wrote: [ -> ]You could try something much cheaper - Norton Utilities - Software that will return your PC to near as new condition. It gets rid of loads of clutter on the hard drive, and all the start up programs that have found their way into your start up folder. I use it all the time, (run it once a week) and my 5 year old PC is as fast as new.
Cost is around £30. You could try the Norton Symantec website to download a trial version.
But believe me, the full paid for version is well worth having, even on your new PC if you go that way.
I haven't gone NEAR any Norton software in a number of years.
I used to be a subscriber to their Anti-Virus product, but stopped when it became bloat-ware, and slowed my XP machine to a crawl.
I now use AdvancedCare for optimization, AVG Free for Anti-Virus, and SpyBot Search and Destroy to look for browser exploits. None of those cost anything. You *can* upgrade to their 'pro' levels, but the freebies work fine for me.
Thanks for the info on these probably need to look at this stuff either to sort out the present mess and or if I get a new laptop.
Still looking nad scratching my head, any one just want to suggest a model?