[Leica] OT: Apple Mac gets grindingly slow...

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

Since my laptop is my main work computer at present, I upgraded a 
couple of months ago to a very nice Macbook Pro 17" with i7 
processor. All that is good, but the main reason I upgraded from my 
2.16 MHz 15" MacBook Pro was to be able to install more RAM.

My architectural work generally doesn't need lots of RAM or processor 
speed, but it does need screen real estate. Only rarely do I do any 
3D rendering which stretches my resources.

However, for photography the situation is different. My one LR 
library that sits on this machine contains 120,000 photos and the 
other contains 50,000 plus. I started off on the new machine with 4Gb 
of RAM, and then installed another 4Gb. The difference between the 4 
and 8Gb was as great as the difference between the earlier machine 
with 3Gb and the new machine with 4Gb.

So get RAM. LR is now 64bit, so it can access and use as much RAM as 
you can throw at it. This current MacBook that I have, with the 
anti-glare screen is very nice to work at. When at home I plug 
another 1920x1200 screen into it, which can be calibrated a bit 
better than the laptop screen although this MacBook screen is quite 
good and a lot better than the last one I had.




>Peter, I think the people on that forum are talking rubbish. You 
>should put as much memory in your laptop as it supports, period. On 
>the iMac on which I write this, I have 4 GB 800 DDR RAM. My iMac is 
>slightly faster than your laptop (2.66 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo) but 
>that is not a dramatic difference. Yet, I comfortable manage a LR 
>database with 20,000 photos in it. I think the main reason for the 
>difference between yours and mine experience lies mainly in the 
>differing amounts of RAM.
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>Cheers,
>Nathan
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>Nathan Wajsman
>Alicante, Spain
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>On Nov 29, 2010, at 5:40 PM, Peter Cheyne wrote:
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>>  Thanks, Daniel,
>>
>>  maybe I can put 4 GB of RAM in this MacBook Pro, but it will only 
>>act as 3.  Or something like that, which I obviously don't 
>>understand properly.  I dug around a bit and found a thread that 
>>helped.  The last post in that thread suggests that in my Mac's 
>>case, 3 GB would perform better than 4 GB. 
>>(http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=493133).
>>
>>  I just looked at my Lightroom catalogue and see I have close to 
>>9000 photos in there now.  How would I go about creating a new 
>>catalogue?  If I work out how to do that, I think I should split 
>>this 9000 strong catalogue in two also.
>>
>>  All the best,
>>
>>  Peter Cheyne
>>
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