On Sat, Apr 11, 1998 at 02:58:26PM +0000, George R wrote: > On 04/11/98 at 12:58 AM, Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Well, the dual is mine; he can't have it! I guess a better way to ask the > question would be: Am I better off making him his own stand alone box with > 16/24/32/48/64 meg _OR_ would it be more efficient to load up my dual > P-133 to 128/256/512 meg and let him login using a 486 with 16/24/32 meg > and a good video card(4meg+).
The Gimp is sucking memory like a vampire bat. You can easily use 100 MB when processing a screen size image (well, 100MB and more. You can easily suck all available memory). > He's 10, I don't do graphics. One of my friends uses CorelDraw for a > living. GIMP(it is going on the box) is more like Photoshop isn't it? I > really am worse than clueless with graphics. Gimp is plain cool ;) Try it. > I don't want him to be a programmer, he has the wrong mindset. He just > loves to make pictures; the idea of animating/morphing his stuff is > causing him to drive me crazy. Every day - is my computer ready yet??? > > How much of a hinderance is a 14" monitor?? Is this a joke? Do you want to kill his eyes? A 14" is not only way to small, it even has (presumably) a low refresh rate, makes the screen flickering and will make his eyes tear. For real graphic processing, a 17" or 21" is recommended (with video modes running at min. 85 Hz vertical). But a 15" is a *must*. Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
