Pixels Are Bad Mmmkay?
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To start off, my business partner and I started up our sign business about a year and a half ago. He was a plasterer with a couple years of screen printing experience and I was tattoo artist/business owner of 13 years with about a year or more of sign making experience. I started off with a stock Asus laptop with an i5 processor and a mere 4 gb of RAM. When we started our shop we were on a tight budget and we've been upgrading our equipment as we've come along. However, the one thing that stayed the same, simply because we were managing to get by, was the computer. We figured if it wasn't broke, don't fix it. However, when I jumped into designing in vector a year and a half ago I learned Corel Draw X5 and dealt with lagging functions along many other obstacles that were obviously hindered by computer's performance...or lack of. When working in Photoshop, I would constantly run into insufficient RAM errors and couldn't save large jpeg images to save my life. So finally after working on this POS laptop for the last 2.5 years, we got a new one! I went to the local custom computer shop (Computer Deli) and this is what we ordered.
I got an Intek GX700 case and we loaded it with two large Antec fans, three small Corsair fans, and a 750W Corsair modular power supply. Inside we have an Intel Core i7 3770K processor 3.5 Mhz with 8 MB cache on an Asus P8Z77-V motherboard with a built in wireless reciever. We have all of our software installed on a Samsung 120 GB solid state drive, and data is stored on a Western Digital 7200rpm 1000 GB internal drive. We have a Toshiba 1000 GB external drive for scheduled automatic backup. We also had an LG DVD burner installed. It has a full 32 MB of RAM and a Nvidia GForce GTX 650 graphic card. It's got a Logitech K400r Wireless Touch Keyboard/Pad that I already don't really like, but it's just a keyboard. I'm also running my Microsoft Arc Touch wireless mouse that I've had for a while now. The system is operating on the latest version of Windows 7 Professional. All that is connected to a Samsung S24C200BL 23.6 inch LED monitor.
So far I'm very happy with the purchase. This thing runs so much faster than what I am used to. I can't wait to see how it performs with our software. Installing programs to the solid state drive is incredibly fast and so far everything works flawlessly. Hopefully this will help increase my productivity drastically but I guess that goes without saying.
I got an Intek GX700 case and we loaded it with two large Antec fans, three small Corsair fans, and a 750W Corsair modular power supply. Inside we have an Intel Core i7 3770K processor 3.5 Mhz with 8 MB cache on an Asus P8Z77-V motherboard with a built in wireless reciever. We have all of our software installed on a Samsung 120 GB solid state drive, and data is stored on a Western Digital 7200rpm 1000 GB internal drive. We have a Toshiba 1000 GB external drive for scheduled automatic backup. We also had an LG DVD burner installed. It has a full 32 MB of RAM and a Nvidia GForce GTX 650 graphic card. It's got a Logitech K400r Wireless Touch Keyboard/Pad that I already don't really like, but it's just a keyboard. I'm also running my Microsoft Arc Touch wireless mouse that I've had for a while now. The system is operating on the latest version of Windows 7 Professional. All that is connected to a Samsung S24C200BL 23.6 inch LED monitor.
So far I'm very happy with the purchase. This thing runs so much faster than what I am used to. I can't wait to see how it performs with our software. Installing programs to the solid state drive is incredibly fast and so far everything works flawlessly. Hopefully this will help increase my productivity drastically but I guess that goes without saying.
Rock on! Yeah laptops (for the most part) just cannot touch their desktop counterparts in overall performance.
