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Computer recommendations? Artist / photoshop style.
Chop Logic
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FRIENDS. I am in great need of your wisdom.
My computer recently died unexpectedly. I must obtain a new one. However, I am relatively out of the loop technologically. I basically was wondering, what would be the best bang for my buck in my situation. I won't be playing any games on it, but I will be doing a lot of photoshop / very low key animation stuff. Trying to spend as little as possible while still getting something dependable.
Any recommendations? Something someone has had for a while that is still up and running well?
In exchange I heartily wish you an excellent evening.
My computer recently died unexpectedly. I must obtain a new one. However, I am relatively out of the loop technologically. I basically was wondering, what would be the best bang for my buck in my situation. I won't be playing any games on it, but I will be doing a lot of photoshop / very low key animation stuff. Trying to spend as little as possible while still getting something dependable.
Any recommendations? Something someone has had for a while that is still up and running well?
In exchange I heartily wish you an excellent evening.
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Spending "little" on a computer is a bit relative. How much do you have?
I know you're super into the technical side of art, any machines I should look into? I could definitely, with one or two family members helping me out, get together at least like $2000. I'm sure you understand the importance of having a dependable machine (I'm getting commissions finally, etc.) so I'm just wondering what you or someone else would recommend.
in fact you can spend way less than 1000 nowadays
For photoshop you need 8 gigs of RAM and ideally an SSD
Pretty sure you can could a PC all-in-one with both of these things right around the $1000 mark
shit, you can almost get a laptop now with those specs for that price
If you can get someone to build it for you, you can get even cheaper than that
for someone on a budget who is factoring in birthday money, a Mac is a colossal waste of money for minimal performance gain, if any
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Second and slightly less important question: are you good at following instructions and/or asking for help following instructions?
If the answer to either of those is "Yes", go to the Computer Build Thread in Moe's Tech Forum. They'll point you in the right direction to get the most bang for your buck.
You'll want to get your budget socked down so you know how much you can spend. If you've never built a PC before, keep in mind you'll need a bit of cash set aside for the operating system install, chances are pretty good that that'll be the most expensive single component of the build.
It's looking like if I was the SSD and a large screen (for art), a grand is going to be pretty hard to go under. Seems reasonable though. I'm scoping some ASUS stuff now.
What kind of animation were you thinking?
flash = similar specs to Photoshop
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