Chillblast Fusion Photo OC III review

Why do you need 12GB of RAM?

A 20 megapixel image even at a native 14 bit will only take up 800MB.

12GB just seems unnecessary. Unless, of course, you absolutely have to have 15 RAW images open at a time. But you can only work on one at a time...

By drajs on 4 Sep 2009

Simplz

Layers in Adobe apps, take up the memory if you have lots of images to work on together, so no you don't always work on one photo at a time. I have just upgraded to a similar spec machine with Windows 7 and it rocks compared to old P4-3ghz with 4gb Ram and noisy disks. Get some now and enjoy. :-)

By greenee on 7 Sep 2009

We might want to Multitask?

Some of us might run Photoshop AND Lightroom together, and we also might want to browse the web, run Office programs, and run memory-hungry virtual machines. The more memory, the less disk swapping and the better the overall responsiveness and performance of the system...

By Sushifiend on 22 Mar 2010