Housekeeping With Computers
/Ocean Beach, San Francisco, California, 2010
Yesterday I tried to open a file with Photoshop and got the message: Photoshop could not complete your request because of a program error. After a little digging in the Adobe Dumpster, I learned that the latest version of Photoshop won’t work with my antique 2014 graphics card. The solution, I read, was buy a better graphics card. Hummph!
Instead of spending $300 for a new GPU for my 2014 computer that’s worth about $100, I moved my 2017 iMac from the sidelines into the production line. It took all afternoon to transfer files and set up my Wacom Expresskeys and CIntiq, and then update Clip Studio Paint EX and Rebelle 4 to the latest versions.
The iMac is definitely has a faster GPU than my antique PC, but overall, my old PC is just about as fast as my iMac. Besides being a a little newer and an iota faster than my old rig, the iMac has a sweet 27-inch 5K monitor. My only reservation about switching from Windows to macOS is that I really like the Windows file manager more than the Mac Finder.
