I've used Photoshop on both a PC and a Mac, both at 500mhz, the PC had 384mb of Ram, and the Mac had 512, the PC had a 160gb@7200rpm, while the Mac had a 20gb@5400rpm. The Mac was running Photoshop CS, while the PC was running Photoshop 5.02. The Mac was the better machine by far, and that was a G4. I recommend getting a Mac G5, with as much ram as you can afford, but at least 1GB. I have lots of problems on my home machine (PC), and it's very slow with a large file due to not just Photoshop being a ram hog, but windows as well. Mac's OSX is extremely stable, not to mention being designed to run on the G5 processor. Mac all the way, they are more expensive, but it's worth it to me.
Isaiah Brink
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