Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/06/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Image licensing: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog