Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/12/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I had a speed issue with my iMac which I first noticed in my photo cataloging software. Eventually the whole system almost ground to a halt. Turns out it was a failing hard drive. Funny thing (good too) is that reads from the drive were fine but any time I wrote to it it took a very long time. Replacing the drive fixed the problem. Mike D On 11/29/10 10:41 AM, Peter Cheyne wrote: > At home, I use a MacBook Pro, OS 10.5.8, 2.33 GHz Dual Core Duo, with > 2GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM. When I edit photos in Lightroom it becomes > frustratingly slow these days. Is there anything I can do to get it > over those speed bumps faster? I heard I can give it 3 GB of RAM > instead of 2, but that might not help any, because this Mac is said to > work better with equal sized RAM chips. Any suggestions, or is it > time to buy a new Mac? I was hoping this one would last me longer. > > Peter Cheyne > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >