How much RAM for photoshop cs2?

gimme5minutes

I need to buy a laptop, it will be used almost exclusively for web dev/design. Would 1Gb of RAM be good enough to run photoshop cs 2. I'll be using files with over 20 layers at 1920x2000 resolution for example.

Obviously I'd like to have more RAM but would I 'get away with' 1Gb or would I be wasting my time, and money?

Karoma

Given that it may be shared with the video card, and is required to run other applicationds & the OS... especially, if it's Vista. It won't run very fast at all. However, RAM is cheap and quite simple to upgrade. I would strongly recommend considering 2GB as a min.

Moromaster

2gb? Hardly.

I can run CS3 on my laptop with 512mb ram easily. I only get lag when I have a brush size over 100.

melekalikimaka

Moromaster wrote: »

2gb? Hardly.

I can run CS3 on my laptop with 512mb ram easily. I only get lag when I have a brush size over 100.

20 layers?? one gig, not gonna go well.

if your gonna be using 1 or 2 gig, i'd look into avoiding vista, xp or windows 7, claw back some of the ram off the os, also maybe look into a ready boost memory stick

Moromaster

20 layers?? one gig, not gonna go well.

if your gonna be using 1 or 2 gig, i'd look into avoiding vista, xp or windows 7, claw back some of the ram off the os, also maybe look into a ready boost memory stick

The sig I'm using right now was 47 layers.

Raven13

RAM memory is reasonably cheap now. You can get a decent set for £40 or so. Depending on your PC configuration you might find this useful: 4GB RAM.
I am using 4 x 2GB OCZ DDR3