Recommend a Dell for Adobe CS5.5

[Paris MkVI]

I've been doing some virtual building and comparing with Adobe specs, and want other eyes to make sure I am not going blind and missing something critical.

Here's what I am thinking at the moment. . .

Dell XPS9100, Intel® Core™i7-960 processor(8MB L2 Cache, 3.20GHz), Windows® 7 Professional 64bit, 12GB Tri Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz - 6 DIMMs, ST2220L 21.5-inch Full HD Widescreen Monitor, ATI Radeon HD5670 1GB GDDR5 (this would be changed out to an Adobe-approved card), 500GB Data Security RAID 1 (2 x 500GB SATA 3Gb/s 7200 RPM HDDs), Blu-ray Combo Drive (8X BD-R, DVD+/-RW) with DVD+R double layer write capability, Dell AX210 Stereo Speakers, Dell Consumer Multimedia Keyboard, Dell Laser Mouse, THX® TruStudio PC™ Sound card.

Media storage would be in external 7200rpm drives via eSATA connector.

We will still be shooting SD for the near-term future, but this is intended to pave the way for HD, as is the Panasonic HPX-170 P2HD camera for field shooting.

Tell me what you see is right. Tell me what you see is wrong. I am going blind looking at it after a while.

[KeckCreative]

That's some pretty good specs. I currently run Adobe CS5 Master Collection on Intel i3; Windows 7 64bit; 8GB RAM; two monitors - 24in 16:9 HD @1920x1080 and 17in 4:3 reference monitor @1024x768 on ATI Radeon HD5770 1GB video. I frequently run multiple Adobe apps simultaneously (usually Photoshop, After Effects, and Premiere) and no issues even with additional multiple Internet Explorer 9 tabs and multiple Microsoft Word documents open. So, I think you got your bases pretty well covered.

[[Admin] osborn4]

I wouldn't get the Dell speakers, unless the price is better than the last time I played around on thier site. And I wouldn't pay Dell to upgrade the keyboard or mouse.

I let Dell send the cheapest keyboard and mouse they can and then buy the keyboard and mouse you want.

I'd also shop around the monitor to make sure you are getting a good price.

But I haven't been on the Dell site for quite a while, so thier pricing strategy may have changed.

[Paris MkVI]

I pulled the specs from the Dell site, but the actual purchase would be through a local company that handles our IT, so I would be able to work around some of the various odds and ends. I agree completely on just getting the basic kb and mouse. I would take audio output into the control room monitors - the PC speakers are just for convenience when I do not want to fire up the room, or am just editing speech and not doing critical mixing yet.

See any potential roadblocks to editing HD in the future with these specs?