Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/12/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I considered that but all the reviews I read about the express card slot card readers were that they crashed the system. Know of any that work well? On 12/3/10 12:52 PM, Spencer Cheng wrote: > In general even a FW800 drive is going to be quite slow compared to an > SATA/eSATA connected drive which transfers data about 3x faster. > > For the 17" i7, which I believe, has the ExpressCard slot, get a eSATA > ExpressCard adapter and connect your external eSATA drive to that. I think > you will find any application which has to run off external drives will > run much faster. > > What would be ever better is to have your laptop modified by taking out > the DVD drive and replacing it with another HDD but that requires sending > the laptop to a bunch of strangers to butcher. :-) > > I really, really wish that Apple had kept the ExpressCard slot for the 15" > MacBook Pro which I have. :-(( > > /sc > > PS. Add another 4 GB of memory will also do wonders for performance of > memory intensive applications. > > On Dec 3, 2010, at 12:52, Harrison McClary wrote: > >> Earlier this summer I was getting VERY frustrated with slow response from >> Lightroom on my Macbook Pro. I have the 17 inch i7 with 4 gigs of >> RAM...I expected it to be VERY fast as this is the fastest Macbook Apple >> currently makes. >> >> Anyway I discovered if I was patient and allowed Lightroom to download >> and render all of its previews it was fast, but if I did not wait for all >> the downloads and rendering to get done then sometimes it was just S L O >> W. >> >> My catalogs are all far more than the 9,000 images you are talking about. >> >> I was working completely from an external 500 gig hard drive connected >> with a firewire 800 connection. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >