Originally Posted by Julian
Geez, a lot of misleading advice here. I run 512mb RAM and Illustrator CS2 and Photoshop CS2 run fine together at the same time. I only have a 1.8mhz P4 for my work rig and it runs sweet.
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how demanding are your documents? (IE heavy photo print documents) because the machine i have at work is a 1.81ghz AMD athlon 2800+ w/ 1GB of ram and it runs like trash.
i can barely do anything in cs3. it crashed just turning off the guides already today, on a flat 72 dpi jpg.
edit: it just crashed again turning layers on and off too fast. i'm just going to keep updating this post every time it dies.
crash #3 - i tried to free transform my header photo.
crash #4 - i reopened photoshop after crash #3.
crash #5 - i reopened the document and zoomed in.
just having cs3 open is using 96 172kb of my resources. opening the document it jumps to 190 632. free-transforming my header jumps to 202 996kb.
crash #6 - i opened another document to duplicate a layer. i'm giving up and going back to cs2.
on my macbook (2.16ghz core 2 duo, 2GB ram) i can smoothly have photoshop cs3, illustrator cs3, flash cs3, safari, mamp and itunes running. in the pc with half the power i can barely do one of those processes by itself.