Desktop Publishing Advice

[Melonie Holliman <mrh -at- ABMDATA -dot- COM>]

Howdy, William and All:

I upgraded my machine to NT 4.0 about 3 months ago. I had a
Pentium (not sure what MHz) with 32 MB RAM. I am using the
same programs as you are, for the most part. Everything worked
fine with the exception of Photoshop--my machine crashed repeatedly
when I worked on a file larger than 5 MB until I upgraded to
64 MB. Now my machine only crashes when I fill up my 2 gig hard
disk (which happens way too often, I must remember to delete those
"working files").

Melonie Holliman
The Tech Writer
ABM Data System, Inc.
Austin, Texas


William B. MacLeod claims...
> I have not posted to the list in almost a year, but I have a
> question.  A little background first.  I am Techical Publications
> Manager.  I currently use a Pentium 90 w/ 32M RAM and a 15" Monitor.
> I use the following software packages Windows 3.1, PageMaker 5.0, Corel Perfect Office Suite
> 6.1, Freehand 5.0, Photoshop 4.0, and other various packages.  I
> write and desktop publish manuals, presentations, proposals,
> brochures, datasheets, etc.  The whole nine yards.
>
> I am soon going to upgrade to Windows NT workstation  so I can upgrade to PM 6.5,
> Corel Perfect Office 7.0, etc
>
> Can some of you recommend the resonable minimum hardware configuration I should
> be using to accomodate the software upgrades mentioned.  I realize I
> could use a 486/66, but that is not reasonable.  Also does anyone
> know if PM, Photoshop,WP, etc will work faster by continually
> increasing the RAM or is processor speed equally important.
>
> Thank you in advance for your input.
>
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