Question for graphic design programs

Dec 28, 2001
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I know that they are hardware intensive (I've been using it for a while, so no "help me use layers" or anything of that sort . . . for now ;)) especially since I tend to fragment a lot of pieces and group them but I had a passing question - if I had a regular consumer-based PC, say, like a medium-priced dell desktop or the apple equivalent, what piece of hardware could I upgrade to gain the most benefit?

I owuld think adding RAM first - but what next?

Okay - there's a lot of different PCs ou there, so say that this was the PC on topic - obviously the memory is lacking, but what else?

(This is a roundabout way of asking if those programs are CPU intensive or if they're really videocard-intensive [which I doubt] - and no, I'm not planning on upgrading my PC anytime soon - don't have the means :()
 

screw3d

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Nov 6, 2001
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I don't think Illustrator uses any video acceleration.. how about a faster hard drive? :)