Needing new(er) computer

[Randy]

Thanks for all the input. Now, can anyone make up my mind for me

[Preston]

Randy, I sent you a PM with a few notes.

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[pinup tragic]

All great suggestions, not sure how power hungry Photoshop is i know with elements you can dial in the amount of Ram it can use, the key here for editing is the monitor - get a good panel, i have a Dell ultrasharp 24" and found an icc profile on the OEM site - very happy with it .. I have a basic box, 2 massive Gigs of Ram and Windows 7 it runs all the software properly flexcolor nikonscan epsonscan. My next PC will be the same thing except for windows 8 unless drivers will work there for the previous.

[Shootar401]

I would strongly suggest staying away from windows and look into a 27" iMac or the 15" MacBook Pro Retina hooked up to a Apple 27" external display. The iMac runs about $2000 and the MacBook Pro about $3000 and goes from there.