On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Nick Lamb wrote: >How much may this help? Well for some operations Gimp definitely thrashes >more than PotatoShop on a similar machine, but for others we're doing >about the same -- and they're tuned for a single OS platform. Summary: >There's no substitute for more RAM. Righto. Especially if you scan many images at a time, it gets very painful to do some real work if things crawl... Of course a bit less is ok for web graphics, but it is for everything. My P100 was a killer box after I upgraded from 16MB to 80MB.. I even did the Gimp CD cover with that machine. And it had lots of 1000x1000 layers.. Tig (384MB at work and counting...)
