Expediency of installing Adobe apps

[Galactic]

PC configuration is Cel 2.6GHz 504MB Ram, Hdd 76.3GB. There are installed a
lot of software, include office xp, Photoshop 7. Free hard disk space is
near 55% currently. I want install Adobe Acrobat Pro and Adobe InDesign.
Both apps use huge memory resources and many hard disk space. I want to keep
some reserve of disk space for system stability. I am wondering if anyone
has advice about the expediency of installing Adobe apps on that
configuration.

regards,
galactic

 

[Newbie Coder]

Galactic,

If you have 55% free then you have around 40 Gb free disk space. If you
install those application then you'll be fine & have a lot of free space
left.

One thing I have noticed is that you have 504 MB RAM, which means the
graphics is hogging 8 MB of you RAM. Plus XP does run fine or is supposed to
run fine on 500MB memory. Think about doubling it up because the Operating
System will take most of that memory & leave you to basically none for
applications. With the Celeron processor you have working hard to keep
swapping between RAM & HDD.

Hope this has given you an insight

 

[Galactic]

Galactic,

If you have 55% free then you have around 40 Gb free disk space. If you
install those application then you'll be fine & have a lot of free space
left.

One thing I have noticed is that you have 504 MB RAM, which means the
graphics is hogging 8 MB of you RAM. Plus XP does run fine or is supposed
to
run fine on 500MB memory. Think about doubling it up because the Operating
System will take most of that memory & leave you to basically none for
applications. With the Celeron processor you have working hard to keep
swapping between RAM & HDD.

Hope this has given you an insight

 

[JohnO]

So, perfomance on 504MB Ram will be bad, all will be slown down...

Not necessarily. I run all those Adobe apps on a system with 512 MB, and
it's fine. When I use some of the filters in Photoshop the performance is a
bit slow, same with certain operations in InDesign, but for basic work that
system has plenty of memory. Actually, my memory hogs are Firefox and
PowerPoint when I send presentations to Word.

But, memory is cheap. If you can double the RAM, why not?

-John O

 

[Galactic]

Not necessarily. I run all those Adobe apps on a system with 512 MB, and
it's fine. When I use some of the filters in Photoshop the performance is
a bit slow, same with certain operations in InDesign, but for basic work
that system has plenty of memory. Actually, my memory hogs are Firefox and
PowerPoint when I send presentations to Word.

But, memory is cheap. If you can double the RAM, why not?

-John O

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This PC is not mine, I just use it at work. Sure, more RAM will be just
fine, will ask my boss for upgrade..

Galactic