Enhance Performance by RAM Upgrade?

[Geovb]

Hi, I have scanned about 400 pages of old documents and images with 600 dpi. Now I have linked the pages to a document to generate a printable PDF. This worked but my machine (Dell inspirion 7720, 87

, win10, 8GB) struggled with it (gets very slow). Since I am not a hardware specialist: Do you think a RAM upgrade from 8 to 16GB will solve the performance problems?

Thanks for and assistance/ recommendations,

Georg

[Komatös]

Hello @Geovb welcome to the forums.

600 dpi is oversized for most print jobs. In most cases, a resolution of 300 dpi is sufficient.

As far as RAM is concerned, you can compare it to the cylinder capacity of a car. The bigger the cylinder capacity, the more power it produces. 16 GB is a must, especially when using a laptop, if you use memory-intensive applications.

 

 

[Fixx]

On 7/23/2021 at 10:48 PM, Komatös said:

600 dpi is oversized for most print jobs. In most cases, a resolution of 300 dpi is sufficient.

 

If scans are text only best printable version would be 600 or 1200 dpi 1-bit bitmap. Unfortunately Affinity does not support 1-bit files.