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Old 19-05-11, 12:05 PM
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Beware of adding external drives - particularly USB - they are not particularly quick, and if you are working on images from them then it can give intermittent 'jerky or delayed' feedback to adjustments (ESPECIALLY with Lightroom). OK for backups / archiving though.

Phil
One other thing - just looked at the specs - it has an 'on-board' graphics chip. This means the RAM you think you have is shared (so a 4GB ram machine, with 1GB dedicated to graphics = 3GB available to Win 7 and applications)

Better to upgrade the graphics adapter to a ATI Radeon Sapphire 1GB (about £40) if you buy one, relatively cheap and plenty good enough for static graphic work.

Phil
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