Frankbavaro wrote:.

That allows for opening , closing and saving of 10mp files from anikon d80 -ram ?or processor ?i have a dell inspiron 6000 - want to tweak it - slow so far withthe large files -.

Probably RAM. What do you have? What processor do you have?.

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You want all the RAM you can stuff in the box, and all the processor you can throw at it as well. The one area were most laptops fall down, even with lots of RAM, is hard drive speed..

Unless you pay for it, most laptop hard drives are 4200 RPM, and don't have the data transfer rate of even slow desktop hard drives because of it. That is a bottleneck, even with RAM and processor to spare..

There are faster drives out there... SATA 5400 rpm units will have a noticeable improvement in speed over PATA 4200 rpm drives. It all depends on what the computer can handle internally..

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Processor. Which is generally not worth upgrading in most laptops..

Hit Ctrl-Alt-Del to open the Windows Task Manager, and look at what the 'CPU Usage History' graph on the Performance tab does when you open an image file. You'll see that imaging is very processor intensive. More RAM and a good HDD doesn't hurt, but the faster the CPU, the better it is..

My laptop has a 1.86GHz Centrino, 1GB RAM, a WD 5400rpm HDD (100Mb/s and 2mb cache) and an NVidia video card - it manages Nikon D200 NEFs reasonably well, but it's no speed demon. It's OK for working on the road, but batching large quantities takes a while. Start it off, go to lunch..

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Let's get some better idea of what you mean here..

If you mean transferring the files, the limit is basically the card speed and possibly the card reader. Best transfer speed would be a fast card with a good USB 2.0 card reader in a USB 2.0 port..

If you're using the camera directly connected to the laptoip, stop doing that. It uses battery life and could be slower..

Disk speed is unlikely to be an issue, unless your disk is very nearly full..

If you mean editing the image ( post processing ) then it's a combination of memory, processor and disk speed. You're stuck with the disk speed, because it a laptop - hard to replace. Likewise you're stuck with the processor - impossible to replace. Adding memory, up to a point, will help, because it will allow the operating system to avoid disk operations which happen in the background. This is hard to explain, but the system can use the hard disk as a kind of temporary store for memory if it runs out - it's called swap space. More memory, less use of swap space..

Hope that helps..

For the record I'm in IT..

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I NEED a new laptop - oh boy !!.

What should min be specs be ? to handle effeicently 10mp files -..

I don't know exactly what you're doing that's slow, nor do I know what you consider 'slow' to be. The Inspiron 6000 does not have any lacking features that I'd say would make it particularly slow in handling 10MP photos. So here's my two cents....

I really doubt it's a hardware problem..

As Stephen mentioned, you shouldn't be editing the photo directly on the camera card. That will be slow no matter what. You should copy the photo to your computer's hard drive first, and open them from there..

If you ARE first copying the photos to your hard drive and it's STILL slow, the next most likely problem is software-based. Almost all 'slowness' problems I've come across in the past 15 years have been due to lack of proper maintenance. Before you go out and buy a new laptop I recommend you take your old one in for service..

Note: Mention that it's slow. And it avoids a lot of confusion if you can give them a demonstration, which helps answer the two questions from my first sentence..

After that, then you can look at the hardware...

Unless you were trying to use this as an excuse to convince your significant other that you need a new laptop. In that case, yes, your old laptop is far too slow to handle even the most basic of modern tasks. You definitely need a new one...

Offloading 1st using a crad reader, -.

Then using nikon's- PP auto enhancing , cropping , saving , going to next file , etc -that is the part that seem slow to me -.

Ok , i'll spend the money on that tammon 90mm macro that is sup to be soooo cool -..

I have the same laptop. Unless you ordered the memory upgrade it only comes with 512mb of RAM. I replaced that so my laptop now has a total of about 1.5gb. That speeded things up quite a bit.Dirck HarrisBug chaser/Dragonfly hunter.http://www.pbase.com/harry1/..

I have two gig of memory on my desktop ( and that's conservative for someone in IT ), and it's not blindingly fast. I do batch RAW file conversions using 16-bit tiff and then batch noise reduction on the 16-bit tiffs. It's slow. I usually start the process then go away for half an hour and get a cup of tea and so on..

Processing RAW files is a big computational operation and most of it is memory bound, because the system has to make two copies (at least) of the image..

More memory should help. I'd advise avoiding laptops in future. Desktops (towers) are easier to upgrade - you can replace anything and everything, including putting in new motherboards and CPUs. If you know someone who can put together a PC ( and it's easier than it sounds ), then talk to them..

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