Photoshop CS5 and Imac Intel Core i3 3.06 Ghz

<p>Hello,</p>

<p>Will Photoshop CS5 run efficiently processing raw files from 5D MkII Canon on a new iMac computer with 3.06 Ghz Intel Core i3 Processor and 4GB of RAM with graphic card ATI Radeon HD 4670 with 256 MB?<br>

Thank you in advance for help.</p>

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<p>Best advice is to check the specifications on Adobe's website for CS 5 - quick answer is that on the surface - it seems sufficient - 256 mb may be a little low on the graphics side. </p>

<p>Dave</p>

 

<p>Add as much RAM as it will hold and store your images on a seperate hard Disk drive, also set up a partition on that external or another as a scratch drive for Photoshop. </p>

<p>It really depends how you use photoshop. Do you have 45 different layers, all with image masks? Do you like to have 15 images open at once? Are you in production environment, do you have tight deadlines?</p>

<p>There are diminishing returns for additional money spent. Another way to say it is, the last 5% of performance is 95% of the cost. Yes, that machine is plenty fast enough. More ram is always nice, the video card, i'm pretty sure does nothing for RAW conversion. </p>

<p>If you have an apple store close by, locate a 5DMkII Raw file online you can download when at the store (or bring a thumb drive with one) alot of the machines have photoshop on them in the store. Start with the slowest machine, the mac mini, then keep movinig to faster and faster macs until it seems quick enough for you. </p>

<p>You should be just fine with the machine you described. Ten years ago many of us struggled with far lesser machines and far larger scanned film files. As someone else posted, unless you're in a production environment with tight deadlines, you shouldn't have a problem. Just keep a separate HD and all the RAM you can afford. OTOH, if you ever plan to edit video all bets are off.</p>