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[filmscanners] RE: Digital Darkroom Computer Builders?
>Such chips are available?
Yes. I did not think so either until a few months ago when some one pointed
out that they were available (but expensive) and used in high end servers.
They are not readily available off the self like the 512MB and typically
sold mainly to the corporate server market by outlets specializing in that
market.
>A 32-bit address space can only span 4 gigabytes. I can't go past 4
>gigabytes with a 32-bit architecture.
While that makes clearer what you are saying in one sense; it still is
unclear if you are saying that it is impossible to do with 32-bit
architecture or merely difficult or inefficient to do. There is a
difference. One is a brick wall limitation while the other is a limitation
by choice or preference.
>Perhaps where you live, but everything is more expensive in France. And
>even at U.S. prices I didn't have enough of a budget for extras.
Alas, I have been saying that the prices may be more expensive outside the
US all along. But I have also been suggesting that first this discussion is
not about you and your personal practical situation and second you have a
tendency to project your personal limitations on everyone else as a
universal rather than as a special case or an individual case. I was never
talking to your individual case but always to the general case that for a
large number of users engaged in imaging on a professional level what I say
would hold, except for my statement of my experiences with LCDs.
-----Original Message-----
From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Anthony Atkielski
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 3:18 AM
To: laurie@advancenet.net
Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Digital Darkroom Computer Builders?
Laurie writes:
> ... unless one is looking for 1GB or larger RAM
> chips which tend to be special order items at
> premium prices.
Such chips are available? I thought 512 MB was the largest one could buy at
the moment.
> Maybe your motherboard has a limitation in memory
> slots and a memory capacity of 512 ...
It has three slots, but I don't think it has any other limitation beyond
that. With 512 MB devices, I can go up to 1.5 GB, and I have.
> My system also uses Windows XP Home Edition,
> which is not crippled to prevent it from addressing
> more than 512MB or 1024 MB as you suggest since
> I am currently running at 1024MB and have been
> told that I could add two more 512 MB modules
> under my current setup.
The total RAM limit is 2 GB on the Home Edition. It is 4 GB on the Pro
edition. It's just a switch inside the software, of course, so Microsoft
doesn't advertise the difference, but when you can't get past 2 GB on the
Home Edition and try to call for support, they'll tell you to spend a couple
of hundred dollars on an upgrade that has the limiting switch turned off.
> I believe the limnitation is not a Windows
> one but a motherboard chipset one.
Motherboards may be separately limited, but the 2 GB limitation is
definitely an artificial OS limitation.
> I am not sure I understand you.
A 32-bit address space can only span 4 gigabytes. I can't go past 4
gigabytes with a 32-bit architecture.
> But a motherboard with an onboard EIDE RAID
> controller is only around $60-$80 more than
> the same board without one.
Perhaps where you live, but everything is more expensive in France. And
even at U.S. prices I didn't have enough of a budget for extras.
> It has been my experience that I do not have
> to align the monitor up as exactly to be able
> to see and read it as is the case with a
> lighter LCD monitor ...
Alignment isn't a problem for me, since my head barely moves in front of my
desk. But I just cannot find a flat-panel display with the same quality as
a good CRT for the same price--or for any price, for that matter.
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