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components in an industrial setting.

Graphics designers need to have the clearest view possible of their images

and image editing software. Whether you’re editing a wedding shoot in

Lightroom or drafting mechanical components in SolidWorks, you need to

make sure you can see what you’re working on! Because of this, a primary

need for a graphics workstation is a large, high-quality monitor. A $200 LCD

panel from Best Buy won’t help you here—you need to make sure that the

colors you see on the screen are as accurate as possible.

Chapter 17 covers all the various high-end video components, such as In-

Plane Switching (IPS) monitors and multi-thousand-dollar graphics

workstation video cards. We’ll reopen the discussion on graphics

workstations in that chapter.

To wrap, a graphics/CAD/CAM design workstation needs:

• Multicore processor

• High-end video/specialized GPU

• Very large amounts of RAM, often the maximum the system can

accept

• Robust storage

Audio/Video Editing Workstation

When George Lucas made the first Star Wars movie, he used camera tricks,

miniature models, and stop-motion animation to create the illusion of massive

spaceships and robots battling it out in a galaxy far, far away. Twenty years

later, he filmed the Star Wars prequels in front of massive green screens and

used computer-generated imagery (CGI) to transform the bland sets into

exotic planets and space stations. I won’t get into an argument about which

approach produced better movies, but the fact remains that the act of creating

films has changed. It’s not just films, either—computers have changed the

way we create all types of media, including movies, television shows,

photography, music, and more.

If you want to get involved in this creative revolution, you’re going to

need a powerful computer. Workstations for creative professionals are

customized for the type of media they create.

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