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Brother Mike
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It all started out with the wife writing her poems on a HP laptop while grinding through her frustrations of having to learn Photoshop and Indesign. Not that Photoshop or Indesign are all that complicated, but for some like my wife they seemed to both be a daunting task. The most complicated software my wife has experience to this point was the Sim series from EA Games. (Why anyone would play Sims is beyond me)
The wife set her teeth to learn these two semi complicated programs so that she could make backgrounds with Photoshop then do the Wording in Indesign. She was going to present her Poems first as a gift to our Pastor so they had to be perfect.
3 long months, day and night she watched tutorial video's on both programs while calling me over constantly to show her again something I showed her just the day before. Some folks catch on a little slower than others I suppose, and as the Husband I had to do it with grace as if she asked for the first time, not the 8th time on how to do something.
I even watched through hours of tutorials myself so I could explain things better to her.
Now she is doing all this graphic work on a HP Laptop with 4 gigs of ram. One program by itself runs barely passable as long as you don't eat up the 4 gigs of ram. The wife seemed to want Indesign and photoshop up at the same time, which did not help her situation out all that much.
after 3 grueling months, my wife finally was able to get her hard work over to our printer. She was really shocked to find that what she saw on the small laptop screen was not the same once you do the printing. Only 8 of the 20 poems turned out usable, the rest the back ground made all the letters hard to read. Yellow on the laptop looks to be a sickly green once professionally printed.
So, in my wonderful Wisdom I suggest she get a desktop with a monitor she can calibrate to our printers, printer. Something a bit faster so her work flow would be without slow down and complete stops the laptop was experiencing.
Now I am a guy, so you just don't buy a computer at Walmart. Walmart's fastest computer for 600.00 can be ordered and put together at home for 400.00. It's always cheaper to buy the parts separate and slap it together yourself. Plus, it had to be faster than what you can buy at any store.
So the wife left me to shop at Newegg part by part, to get a computer to handle photoshop and indesign. She gave me a budget of 600.00.
Thor:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...gclid=CJDiz8qIvMQCFY-EaQodDb4A1Q&gclsrc=aw.ds
I figured on a fill size tower, because the video card I had in mind is a monster in size. I have bought full size towers before, and did not bother to look at the actual dimensions. I did look at the pictures and Thor don't look all that big on a computer screen.
As I ordered each part that guy thing kicked in to where you can spend a little more money and get something a little faster. I only went with the AMD Vishera 6x core at 3.5 Ghz stock because for the wife it would be fast enough and the 8x cores would need water cooling which would add more to the price.
The video card started out at 100.00, but what the heck, for 200.00 you could get something that would run every game with all the detail full up. I could not get the 500.00 cards past my wife, so I settled for the Nvidia gtx 960.
When I was done, I went over the budget a little 1,200 total, but the wife did need that 16.7 million color 23" monitor. I am pretty sure she needed it and some really nice speakers, for praise and worship of course.
Back to Thor:
The guy brings Thor in a giant box. Thor is massive, a huge case. My wife's Jaw dropped, because Thor is the size of a extra chair she has to figure out where to put in her living room. I was also surprised, I guess I should have actually looked at Thor's spec's height and length. Thor's Name is on the case and lights up in big red letters with fins on top that open and close.
Thor has 8 USB ports on the front and fan speed controls and is lots bigger than the wife's computer desk.
Inside, Thor 4 fans the size of house fans. An impressive case, but not something a wife would appreciate in Her living room.
My son's friends come over and take pictures of Thor. Wow, Dad, really? Mom needed all this to run Photoshop, right?
OK, so I blew it. I did not get a super fast computer, but still went over my wife's price range by 700.00.
The only thing saving me is that when my wife went to try Sims 4, it runs with every graphic setting maxed at 100 fps. Sims on a laptop is a slide show at best with graphic turned way down. She made several comments on how awesome the game looks and plays. Saved by the Sims.
One good thing as I look at my wife next to Thor sitting on the floor next to her. I get to use the Laptop now with E-sword and not my Tablet.
So, she looks at Thor, then Looks at me. The best I can do is remind her just how nice Sims 4 runs. It will save me for awhile until it's time to arrange the living room around once again.
Oh well......
The wife set her teeth to learn these two semi complicated programs so that she could make backgrounds with Photoshop then do the Wording in Indesign. She was going to present her Poems first as a gift to our Pastor so they had to be perfect.
3 long months, day and night she watched tutorial video's on both programs while calling me over constantly to show her again something I showed her just the day before. Some folks catch on a little slower than others I suppose, and as the Husband I had to do it with grace as if she asked for the first time, not the 8th time on how to do something.
I even watched through hours of tutorials myself so I could explain things better to her.
Now she is doing all this graphic work on a HP Laptop with 4 gigs of ram. One program by itself runs barely passable as long as you don't eat up the 4 gigs of ram. The wife seemed to want Indesign and photoshop up at the same time, which did not help her situation out all that much.
after 3 grueling months, my wife finally was able to get her hard work over to our printer. She was really shocked to find that what she saw on the small laptop screen was not the same once you do the printing. Only 8 of the 20 poems turned out usable, the rest the back ground made all the letters hard to read. Yellow on the laptop looks to be a sickly green once professionally printed.
So, in my wonderful Wisdom I suggest she get a desktop with a monitor she can calibrate to our printers, printer. Something a bit faster so her work flow would be without slow down and complete stops the laptop was experiencing.
Now I am a guy, so you just don't buy a computer at Walmart. Walmart's fastest computer for 600.00 can be ordered and put together at home for 400.00. It's always cheaper to buy the parts separate and slap it together yourself. Plus, it had to be faster than what you can buy at any store.
So the wife left me to shop at Newegg part by part, to get a computer to handle photoshop and indesign. She gave me a budget of 600.00.
Thor:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...gclid=CJDiz8qIvMQCFY-EaQodDb4A1Q&gclsrc=aw.ds
I figured on a fill size tower, because the video card I had in mind is a monster in size. I have bought full size towers before, and did not bother to look at the actual dimensions. I did look at the pictures and Thor don't look all that big on a computer screen.
As I ordered each part that guy thing kicked in to where you can spend a little more money and get something a little faster. I only went with the AMD Vishera 6x core at 3.5 Ghz stock because for the wife it would be fast enough and the 8x cores would need water cooling which would add more to the price.
The video card started out at 100.00, but what the heck, for 200.00 you could get something that would run every game with all the detail full up. I could not get the 500.00 cards past my wife, so I settled for the Nvidia gtx 960.
When I was done, I went over the budget a little 1,200 total, but the wife did need that 16.7 million color 23" monitor. I am pretty sure she needed it and some really nice speakers, for praise and worship of course.
Back to Thor:
The guy brings Thor in a giant box. Thor is massive, a huge case. My wife's Jaw dropped, because Thor is the size of a extra chair she has to figure out where to put in her living room. I was also surprised, I guess I should have actually looked at Thor's spec's height and length. Thor's Name is on the case and lights up in big red letters with fins on top that open and close.
Thor has 8 USB ports on the front and fan speed controls and is lots bigger than the wife's computer desk.
Inside, Thor 4 fans the size of house fans. An impressive case, but not something a wife would appreciate in Her living room.
My son's friends come over and take pictures of Thor. Wow, Dad, really? Mom needed all this to run Photoshop, right?
OK, so I blew it. I did not get a super fast computer, but still went over my wife's price range by 700.00.
The only thing saving me is that when my wife went to try Sims 4, it runs with every graphic setting maxed at 100 fps. Sims on a laptop is a slide show at best with graphic turned way down. She made several comments on how awesome the game looks and plays. Saved by the Sims.
One good thing as I look at my wife next to Thor sitting on the floor next to her. I get to use the Laptop now with E-sword and not my Tablet.
So, she looks at Thor, then Looks at me. The best I can do is remind her just how nice Sims 4 runs. It will save me for awhile until it's time to arrange the living room around once again.
Oh well......
