Mat, I'm still running 10.6.8. I enabled 64-bits for Ps CS5 and Lr 3 and got a noticeable speed improvement back in the day.
But you might be right; Lion may help. I know I need it for a couple of other things. On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Mat Maessen <tomatoe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Yes, I'm using an older machine: a 2008 iMac, 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo. But >> it has 6 Gig RAM, and I was running Lr with no other apps up (not even >> a browser), and I was watching the Activity monitor. There was plenty >> of RAM, the disks weren't all that busy, my catalog is on the local >> drive while the image files are on an external 2TB 800 MHz Firewire >> drive. > > What OS revision are you running? 10.6 can be slow for 64-bit apps, > since the kernel (and any system calls) are still only 32 bits. I've > run into that even running Firefox on my Mac Mini. Need to get my > hands on a copy of Lion and upgrade one of these days... > > -Mat > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
