@Barrock: NO do not follow this list, especially for Photoshop. For a new pc especially for media editing, i would upgrade to 8gb of ram not downgrade to 4gb. Also if you do any transcoding you should purchase a amd cpu, as that architecture is superior to Intel in those terms. She also wants bang for her buck, showing any nvidia card is silly. Why are you giving her a deluxe motherboard if she has no intention to mess with clocks, or voltages? She should be running a micro-atx board for price. Lastly if she has valuable work related media files, stay away form seagate.
@codyanne: I'd say you're limitation according to specs appears to be your graphics card if you can' t play games on high, if you can specify which 5700 series card that would be nice, am guessing 5750? I don't recall much off the top off my head about the Amd 9550 cpu you're running but i'd say you can easily clock that to 3.0ghz on stock cooling, but you probably have a bad motherboard if its a show case so i wouldn't recommend that action. I'd say your computer has a solid year left in it in terms of keeping with the times, and personally i would wait.
On the hard drive topic, i would suggest a western digital 1tb or 2tb black caviar with dual processing. If you chose the 2tb black caviar dual processing model you can partition the first 200gb to run windows and Photoshop. The first 200gb of that particular model hard drive is as fast as most low budgets SSD options ( Its really really really fast). Also black caviar hard drives have 5year warranties, the best in the business.
Its not all about reading people, you have to think about the evidence! Read your notebook!! Everything a suspect says is important, reread your chat log. Evidence is an easy way to eliminate truth or lie, doubt more for pressing people who look nervous.
@MattyFTM: I agree, but you're also describing a status quo stating the psychological factors are engraved in stone. Someone has to take a leap of faith to change that mentality, but the key point being "leap of faith" which no company does. Although indie games/arcade games are also changing that mentality, not directly in association to full retail titles but showing value in a smaller price scale.
@imsh_pl: Patch doesn't know what hes talking about, most of his views are guesstimates, he always follows what he says by stating " maybe am completely wrong" . @melcene: Games use to be even more expensive, and price depended on the cartridges so i don't know where this long term stability idea comes from. @Yanngc33: Bloated publishers, studios that are really inefficient isn't an excuse, as well allot of studios outsource to foreign low labor cost countries.
Why have console software prices become so stringent? Is there a specific mandate or is it an accepted unwavering norm of the current industry? I just think some games would really benefit selling retail for 40$ instead of 60$. It seems some games aren't opposed to charging 70$, so as long as the change is upward in price it’s all good? It seems weird to me in an industry that's growing, were the audience is no longer simply hardcore gamers. You aren't really going to entice a new gamer if every game is 60$ retail. They'll also probably play it as much time as it takes to watch a movie at first, so why not just buy/netflix a movie?
It’s also the reason why i think used games are such a big market now. If you're new to gaming are you more willing to chance 10$, 20$, 30$, 40$ or 60$? Developers now say console used sales are worse than piracy, and i think there's a great point there. The best anti-piracy measure on the pc right now is Netflix and Steam by providing legitimate, convenient, easy options. The thing is consumers are willing to pay as long as you aren't trying to shaft them in broad daylight.
Another point is how some developers blatantly try to shaft their customers by selling unfinished, borked games for full price retail to recoup losses. This practice basically passes on their failure to unknowing "chumps", the customers. Honestly for what bioware did with DA2, I’m only going to buy ME3 used or on steam for a 5$ sale. I'd rather give money to GameStop then bioware at this point, because it was a blatant money grab. But that’s another rant all together.
So in tern i think middleware has a place in the market, but not a full retail price. Sell your first game at middleware cost, then when enough people like the basic concept you make some money. You invest that money into the sequel making an AAA or close game, and sell it for full retail. I think the Witcher is a good example of middleware to full AAA title in the sequel.
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