Try it, Christine, but I couldn't live without 6GB now, and I'd rather have 8GB if my (older) iMac would accept it.
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Christine Aguila <christ...@caguila.com> wrote: > Hmmm, I have Lion version 10.7.4, 2.5 GHz Core i5. Wonder if I'd be ok > without a memory upgrade given your comments about RAM. Cheers, Christine > > > > > On May 29, 2012, at 7:21 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: > >> 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. >> > > > -- > 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.
