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Jennifer Kyrnin

What hardware do you have

By , About.com GuideNovember 18, 2006

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Web designers have special needs for hardware. We need a strong video card for the graphics we build and we need a lot of memory to run all the programs we use.
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Many Web designers like using laptop computers as well, because then you can take your work to the client's office and back to your office and work at the coffee shop late into the night. The About PC Hardware / Reviews Guide has a list of the Best Thin and Light Notebooks

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November 22, 2006 at 5:40 am
(1) Tim says:

Don’t forget that the Macintosh range has recently been upgraded to the faster Intel chips.

November 22, 2006 at 10:38 am
(2) Jennifer Kyrnin says:

There was a problem with the cache, and the old version of the page was displaying. The big challenge is figuring out which cache is outdated and then fixing it there. :-) But I think I’ve gotten them all now.

November 23, 2006 at 11:58 am
(3) Mix says:

You don’t need much to run the paint and the notepad.
:LOL:
Really… i run the gimp and dreamweaver mx in a P200Mhz.

December 25, 2007 at 9:07 pm
(4) Grady says:

I am using an emachine m6805 laptop and Arachnophilia for editing html. Cssed for (what else?) CSS editing and the Gimp for photo editing. My OS is linux. I also use Imagemagick for creating thumbnails and other batch photo editing.

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