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I would really doubt that all that space is being taken up by programs. It is most likely files in your "My Documents" folder, "Desktop", RIP cahches, etc. You can run a "disk cleanup" and see how far that gets you. You can also clear out old files in your RIP software (it will keep a...

You may be fine forever. Don't let me scare you. There are just variables that you can omit with a direct conenction.

IMHO, this is an OK way to set things up, but can be a recipe for disaster. Unless you have multiple computers with RIP software installed and printing to the same printer, then you are much better off installing an additional network adapter and setting up a direct ip connection (using a...

I think that we got this figured out. He has two different networks going there. One between his computer and printer and another between his computer and the router (Internet). He needed to put both of his network adapters on different IP / Subnets (192.xxx.xxx.xxx and 10.xxx.xxx.xxx)...

You have a PM.

Love them, recommend them, a great investement! Soooo many shops don't consider backup or redundancy of data. A NAS is a great first step. You should always have an offiste backup of the data on your NAS though. We have sent a few out to some of our best customers with great success. We...

Even though the specs are the same (on the Dells), the actual quality of the hardware won't be. Nor will the overall VALUE of the systems. I, as a business owner, have to understand the difference between cost and value. It is kind of like sign shops and vinyl. If you insist on using the...

Bill Gates was recently (last couple months) quoted saying something about a new operating system being offered in the next year or so. Microsoft has officially clarified that to be a beta of Windows 7. Vista will be around for a long time to come (04/10/2012) from Microsoft's official support...

I am not an AMD detractor... I like their processors a lot. We have built hundereds upon hundereds of AMD based systems. But, I really like the performance resulting from some of the newer quad cores out of Intel (especially the more high-end ones). As far as you reliability experiences...

SSD is getting closer, but I still think you will be better off with a RAID O array of SAS drives (or the new velociraptor SATA drives from WD). Some of our larger design files are using upwards of 300GB of scratch. That will cost ya a pretty penny in SSD. You can get some impressive...

I am really an Intel fan right now (at least for design). AMD has it's place and is heading in some interesting directions, but right now, I am sticking with Intel. The quad cores are the way to go. The Q6600 is great, but there are better bang-for-your buck processors out there. Bigger...

I agree... especially a 3 year old article. No offense intended Shovelhead. Things just change so fast in the technology industry. 3 years is an eternity. C-net is a media outlet. There is often a bit of "spin" on their articles.

I looked up the dv9000 series notebooks and it looks like most of the dv9000 series are limited to 2gb of RAM. More may "fit", but the bios is limited. You may want to call HP to see if you exact model has this limitation. Sometimes there is a bios update that can change the limitation.

You will need a 64 Bit OS to see all of it. XP64 or Vista64 will do. There are several factors as to why you can't see all of it, but basically, it is because other hardware is using some of the 4gb of available memory space that a 32 bit OS can use. There is NOT a 3gb limit. A 32bit OS...

That's interesting. I almost NEVER have to "run as admin" unless it is older software. As far as I know, 8.5 is the only Flexi version that is supported on Vista. Others may work, but good luck getting support.

Welcome... We are an AZ company too Phoneix (Deer Valley).

Like I said before, it "should" be able to. I would tend to lean toward some sort of RAID to improve the disk access times if you are going to be file sharing and performing RIP and print tasks. IMHO, you may be better off purchasing an inexpensive NAS device (most are RAID capable) for file...

That is correct. It doesn't perform a function unless you are designing in Photoshop or Illustrator.

This should be able to "haul the mail", but I would like to see some RAID in the drives. I like RAID 10 (vs RAID 5) due to the low price of storage. RAID10 rebuilds without as much of a performance hit as RAID 5. If you dont want to go through all the guesswork, we offer a RIP variation of...

I am glad that I could help. Photoshop can be on the same drive as Windows. Ideally, what you want is the scratch disk to be an empty drive so that PS doesn't have to compete with anything else when it is accessing the scratch disk space. The extra RAM and 64Bit Vista will help out...