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Originally Posted by Ogofmole
I believe that CS4 is quite power hungry, so as my computer is a few years old, I think that I will stick with CS3 and Lightroom 2, as both of these programs run really smoothly on my computer, and would hate to upgrade and find that my computer is not really up to it. Plus I'm sure that there is still a lot of functions in CS3 that I have not explored yet.
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CS4 is power hungry on RAM, but then all new releases of all programs tend to hog more resources. PC manufacturers make bigger, better, faster machines, and then what happens? Try tidying your bedroom drawers and leave one unit empty. It will be full again within a week!
CS4 utilises the GPU (Graphical Process Unit) facilities, which are best when on your graphics card with a dedicated amount of memory to itself. There are some issues that Adobe acknowledge with certain graphics cards. The details are here...
Adobe and GPU etc
And this is as good as anything at explaining GPU...
Graphics processing unit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
You never get progress without pain. (I might put that on my PT signature
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