Well, I have photoshop running, and I mess with apo, and something previewed at 50 or less quality, and it takes like.... 5 minutes to generate the preview, whereas with PS closed, it normally takes less than a min... 1.25 GB of RAM ftl.
Ah ok, I definitely see the point now me, I work on a prehistoric laptop with 256 mb RAM so I have to forget about multitasking entirely - once Apo's up, nothing else can be
Not really... when using Apo that is my only focus so I don't really need anything else running. The tough part is trying to render at high oversample values