I have a "late-2006" iMac with 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 gb memory. Before I bought this machine, I had for years used a Powerbook as my only computer, but I needed to upgrade in order to handle LR and the like. I understand that newer better (?) program versions are going to use more code, exhibit some feature bloat, and possibly require upgrades to processors, OS, and/or memory. But LR in particular bugs me because it was touted as a modular program, and I would think that the individual modules could still be reasonably svelte and speedy. I haven't gone from LR3 to LR4 in part because I saw no improvements worth paying for, in part because of concerns about speed, memory etc. I am sure I'll get there sooner or later though, and am glad you all are working through the issues!
stan On May 29, 2012, at 9:45 AM, Christine Aguila wrote: > 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. >>> -- 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.
