Good morning,

We're on the verge of getting new computers in my company's art department. We do the usual heavy Photoshop, Coreldraw, and Carrara (no animation, but maybe in the future) for product label production and visualization. We're getting into more web work - Dreamweaver and Flash, with the possibility of video down the road.

Our current box (the better of two machines) has a Xeon 3.2 with 2 GB ram and an NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400 - 256 MB, 4 years old (the other is older). We want to go to quad-core processors with 4 GB ram (limited by company wide XP license, aw shucks) and are looking at the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800 with 768 MB, among others. We don't need super high-end stuff but would like upper mid-range 3D capabilities. Our current system is quite adequate, but anything new will blow it's socks off.

Any thoughts and recommendations? Monitor-wise, does anyone use Viewsonic's VP2650wb, looks pretty sweet.

Thanks for any input,
Lumpy