Bought a new machine...

Out with the old:

Well... I finally got sick of using my Compaq EVO N610c Laptop to edit images... it was just too slow of a process. It's been a great machine and it will continue to be - but just not for editing LARGE tiff files pumped out by the Nikon Coolscan V ED.

So I went to newegg and ordered myself a brand spanking new machine. I went for as high end as I could with a goal of spending less than $2500.

In with the new:

I got a K8NE-Deluxe Socket 754 MB from ASUS, AMD Athalon 64 3400+, ASUS V9999UL Ultra Deluxe which is a actually a NVidia GeForce 6800 w/256MB DDR3 RAM. I added 1.5Gb of DDR ECC RAM, 1.8 Terrabytes of storage using mostly 200GB Seagate silent drives, put in a 560W Thermaltake Silent PurePower 560W Power Supply for AMD, and wrap it all with a Thermaltake Black Highest Xaser III Super Tower.

This will certainly allow me to manipulate larger files with less of my time dedicated to waiting on the machine and the disk transfer speeed, etc.