CS System Req's

[mgraemeb]

Hey S2ians,

I want to up grade to CS and i run Windows ME, Is this the same as Windows 2000?

Thanks Guys/Gals,
Michael
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[Tom Nolle]

Sorry to say, ME is not the same as 2000. Microsoft started out with two families of Windows products, Win95 and WinNT. NT evolved into Win 2000, and that family is sort of the professional or workstation version of Windows. It's less compatible with consumer product software and devices, in general. Win95 evolved into Win98, which evolved into WinME. This was the "consumer" version of Windows, less robust in stability terms but more compatible with general devices and software products. Win XP is a kind of merging of these two lines; the stability of 2000 with the compatibility of the other family.

I've run pretty much all of them. ME is kind of buggy and unstable. Win2000 is just too hard to use as a personal system. XP's the best choice. I also run CS. You need a lot of resources for it--I'd recommend at least a half-gig of RAM and a pretty high-end processor.

Tom

[Rockyw]

ME as Tom said is not a real good OS. The main problem is it bleeds off memory and can't get it back without rebooting the PC.
A common symptom is slowing down more and more till you freeze up or get weird mouse action. I have ran and still run 2000 on all three of my PCs. I do video editing on one of them and image editing on the other two as well as other office work. 2000 works great with most everything except games. As far as office programs, editing (video or images) or DVD CDRW burning programs it's a great OS. I bought XP pro when it came out but my video editing software did not like it as well as several other programs I run. I have given it to my son for a gaming PC and it's good on that. For photoshop and Premiere I run a duel Athlon 1800MP with 1 1/2 gig of ram. The other two PCs are 2400 Athlons and 1 gig of ram. XP might be good for you but 2000 is a tried and true OS for pro work.