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Originally Posted by renormalised
It is...go and have a look at the average desktop they sell. Most are i3's and 6GB of RAM is hardly standard...it's usually 1-3GB.
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Sure, but c'mon Carl - we're talking astrophotography here. We're talking about folks that need grunt and power to process images and drive half a dozen bits of kit and as many applications in real time without a hiccup and with headroom to spare. The average read-your-email and browse-the-web ma & pa user is not relevant to the OP or my comments.
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Originally Posted by renormalised
Your only handling more data now because you have more powerful data acquisition devices that send you more data. It would be natural for the older system you had to be groaning under the weight. It wasn't meant to handle that much data. But in relative terms, the amount of data vs processing power is still very close to being the same. In real terms, there has been no improvement...only everything has gotten bigger. I agree, bigger and faster computers are a fact of life. However, the bigger the software packages have become, the more bloated they are and the less elegant their programming. Half of the abilities inherent in CS5 (or any other program) you've probably never used. Or ever will use. Unless they're playing games (and the GPU does most of the work anyway) there's no need for most people to own the computer that they do. They're under utilised for what they're doing in the home.
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Mate, I'm actually not sure the point you're trying to make
unless it's just MS bashing? In any case I repeat, I'm only considering astrophotography needs, nothing else.