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Subject: [Leica] Would an SSD speed up Lightroom?
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 07:30:59 +0530
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Peter,
SSDs help, but not as much as RAM. I have an SSD as a scratch disk for 
Photoshop, that speeds it up a fair amount, but I upgraded my windows 
machine to 32GB RAM that has given me the most speed.
Cheers
Jayanand

Sent from my iPad

On 18-Jul-2013, at 7:05 AM, Peter Cheyne <peter.cheyne at gmail.com> wrote:

> I use a Macbook Pro from around 2008 (2.33 Core 2 Duo) and it's starting to
> get slow. Especially with Lightroom tasks. I upgraded it to 4 GB Ram (3 GB
> usable RAM).
> 
> My friend says I should think about changing the HDD for an SSD. Would this
> really make the computer generally faster, and would it mean less waiting
> around for Lightroom to do things like zoom in on photos and export
> selected DNGs as JPGs?
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Peter
> 
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