Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/06/19

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Subject: [Leica] Two gripes
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 19:52:28 +0100
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Yes, LR 2 runs just fine on my old Powerbook G4 with 10.4. Slow but 
tolerable (with 1.25 GB RAM). However, it is obviously much nicer on my 
MacBook Pro with 4 GB, soon to be 8 GB :-)

Nathan

On 19 Jun, 2010, at 19:11 , Jeff Moore wrote:

> 2010-06-19-10:28:40 grduprey at mchsi.com:
>> Why not upgrade to Snow Leopard?  Its only $29.  Then your problems
>> will be solved.
> 
> Yeah, Snow Leopard is an all-around win.  Faster *and* smaller.
> 
> Unless he has a PowerPC machine.  Trying to remember if any versions
> of Lightroom used to run on PowerPC.
> 
> But keeping a PowerPC machine going in this day and age, especially
> for something as CPU-intensive as photo editing, seems a huge exercise
> in frustration.  I suspect that even the new little Mac Mini, which is
> tiny, quiet, and dissipates about as much power as rubbing your hands
> together, is faster (except for the disk subsystem) than even the
> giantest G5.  And the power consumption difference is epic.
> 
> -Jeff
> 
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