Title: Internet Research - Activity 3
Course: CGS 1560 Microcomputer Operating Systems > Section: Module 3 - The Different Operating Systems

You come back from lunch and upon returning to your desk you check your voicemail. The Director of the IT Department left you a voicemail asking you to stop by her office after lunch. Upon entering her office, she asks you to have a seat. She informs you that the Audio/Video Group has requested workstation software upgrades. The A/V Group creates all of the videos and photos for the company’s advertisements, which are all created in-house. There are 6 people in the group and apparently 3 of them favor Windows and the other 3 favor the Mac operating systems.

The Mac users currently have a Mac Pro purchased in 2009 which has Snow Leopard. It has a 2.66 Quad Core Intel Xeon, 6 GB RAM, 2 TB HDD, and an ATI 4870 graphic card w/ 1GB DDR5. The Windows workstation is an HP Z400 with Windows Vista. It was purchased just before Windows 7 was released and it was never upgraded. It has a 2.66 Quad Core Intel Xeon, 8 GB RAM, (2) 2 TB HDDs, and an Nvidia Quadro FX580 video card. The only thing that they can agree on is that they all want to run Adobe Master Suite CS6. They are currently using the CS4 32-bit version.

We know that the applications we need will drive the selection of the OS. What we need to know is which operating systems would be best for each platform to run CS6? They will need to run all of the applications within the suite. One other thing, the Windows users do not want to move to Windows 8 since they don’t like the way it looks. Please send me a memo with the requirements for the upgrade after you finish your research. Please outline what each system needs listing the current specifications and required specifications for 64-bit upgrades to the most current OS. If there are none, please note that it already meets requirements. I will be forwarding your memo to the A/V Group so please be sure that your memo is formatted correctly.

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