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We're putting it together specifically to run some image enhancement software. What they really want us to get is a Quad AMD Opteron 280 system, but that puts the machine at closer to $18K+. My boss can squeeze pennies out of a nickel, so the likelyhood that we'll go with the quad system is pretty slim.
The funny thing is that in the end we'll likely not use the software that they're looking at and I'll end up with a screaming machine for After Effects, etc. Too bad AE doesn't support over 2Gb of RAM.
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Only 4 gigs of RAM? That's only twice as much as I've got in my home machine.
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Again it's a money issue. To get more than 4GB, we'd have to then also switch to windows 2003 server enterprise edition...another $1500+. The only program that would support more than 2GB is this software that we're going to demo. Seemed silly to spend that much extra (not only the extra on the OS, but the extra RAM as well) for only one program that we'll very possibly not buy. If we do go ahead and buy that software and use it a lot, we can always switch to the server OS and add more RAM.
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Will the app work on a 64 bit platform? You can have lots of RAM then
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Opteron, by definition, is 64 bit. It's not a matter of ability, it's a matter of articial limitations placed by the OS.
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Yes, articial. I'm tired. I was tired yesterday. I will be tired tomorrow. Lvie wtih ti.
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like I need another case of upgradeitis after buying a new TV and getting into RC airplanes!
Ohh...my uncle is into RC airplanes big time. It pretty much is his life. Really expensive.
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Ohh...my uncle is into RC airplanes big time. It pretty much is his life. Really expensive.
well right now I'm sticking with the ready-to-fly, sub-$200 "beginner" planes. I just got a new one day before yesterday, and yesterday had to climb about 60' up a pine tree to get it down! 10 years and 50 lbs since I last climbed a tree made it an entertaining enterprise for the folks on the ground watching me attempt to not fall to my death!
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