Looks like I'll have to add some memory to my iMac before upgrading. I have 4 gigs of ram--probably upgrade to 8 just to be on the safe side. Thanks for mentioning this, Bruce. Cheers, Christine
On May 28, 2012, at 8:15 PM, Tim Bray wrote: > I upgraded to a slightly-faster computer with 8G of RAM and it was > like night and day. We’ll never go back to the halcyon days of > Lightroom 1 (now *that* was fast), but it’s perfectly acceptable; you > just need more memory. -T > > On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I don't understand why nobody has posted here about Lightroom 4 being >> so dog-slow. >> >> I upgraded on the weekend, went through the process of familiarizing >> myself with the new Develop sliders and became comfortable that its >> functionally a Good Thing. >> >> But: good gawd almighty is it slow! Every time I attempt to shift a >> slider I get a spinning pizza of death for many seconds. Sometimes I >> get the SPoD by simply moving the cursor a short distance. It's so >> damned frustrating, I'm starting to regret this "upgrade" and begin >> finding out how I can go back to Lr 3.6. >> >> Of course I Googled and discovered that legions of people are >> complaining about the very same thing. Dammit! >> >> Oh, then there's the issue where it warns me about incompatibilities >> with Ps CS5 now. They upgraded Camera RAW to 7.0, conveniently leaving >> CS5 at the final version of 6.7 with no hope of an upgrade. Nobody >> warned me that upgrading Lr to 4 meant automatically upgrading Ps to >> 6! Shit. >> >> Fairly pissed at Adobe right now. >> >> -- >> -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. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
