[Leica] OT: sluggish iMac

[Tarek Charara]

Lluis,

Don’t buy the Mac Mini for image processing, it will be slow, probably slower than your iMac. I have 3 Mac Minis, one is a headless server (2014) that works fine and is fast for delivering files and handling some server software. One is on standby and one is my scanning machine. It scans just fine, but processes images very slowly…
For image processing I have a 2010 MacPro with 32GB RAM, an upgraded Graphic card, an SSD 1TB drive for system and software and a 12TB internal RAID (5) disk array. It works very well… If I have to change machines, I would buy an older 2013 MacPro… and upgrade that. Or maybe a new MacPro, but right I don’t know where Apple is going. For the time being I’m staying with Yosemite - I still work and like working with Aperture… Although I have Lightroom and Capyure One, Aperture is still better IMHO…

J’espère que tout va bien en Catalunya sud…

Amiiés,


All the best from Paris!

Tarek

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> Le 8 oct. 2015 à 22:39, lluisripollphotography <lluisripollphotography at gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
> Nathan,
> 
> I remember we have bought the iMac at the same time, so we have the same, yours was 20” and mine is 24” but processor etc are the same. My HD crashed two or three years ago and I’ve replaced it by one of 1 TB, the RAM is at the maximum, this model can not be upgraded, it still admit arrive to 6 GB but the improvement will be so slow. I look to change mine as soon as I can because it works slow with Capture One 8.
> 
> Ask other Technical Services, like:
> 
> http://www.macnificos.com
> 
> http://www.microgestio.com
> 
> At this moment what I want buy is a Mac mini with a good Monitor for photography
> 
> Un abrazo
> Lluis
> 
> 
> El 08/10/2015, a les 18.42, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> va escriure:
> 
>> No, I was genuinely interested why there seems to be an OS upgrade every
>> few months that causes all sorts of problems every time. Seems to negate
>> the advantages of sticking to a highly fenced and proprietary system.
>> Anyway, a Mac is a non starter for me because I play a lot of  RPGs....:-)
>> 
>> Incidentally, the OS that gives me the maximum number of headaches today is
>> IOS 9 on my Ipad Mini 128GB - they are bringing out an update a week (we
>> are already on 9.02), but programs like Gmail still freeze for no rhyme or
>> reason a few times a day. If it were not so convenient, I would junk it. As
>> it is, being lazy, I am locked in and stuck with it for the time being!
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Jayanand
>> 
>> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Adam Bridge <abridge683 at fastmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Oh just STOP it, Jayanand. Aren’t we over this OS wars stuff? If it’s a
>>> hardware failure, and it sounds like it is to me, then any machine is
>>> likely to have something happen to it - especially after 7 years.
>>> 
>>> Sheesh.
>>> 
>>> All seriousness aside, might take a look through the console logs and see
>>> if there are any telltale errors being reported during boot. Resetting the
>>> power controller for your machine might make sense as well - I’d have to
>>> look up the technique that’s relevant to the machine in question, however.
>>> 
>>> And it might be a RAM failure issue as well if something is mucking up the
>>> boot process. The Apple Store guys should have poked around at that but bad
>>> RAM can be tricky to find if its intermittent.
>>> 
>>> Adam
>>> 
>>>> On Oct 8, 2015, at 8:08 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I thought the whole idea of using a MAC with all the proprietary
>>>> restrictions was to avoid this sort of nonsense. Never happens to me on
>>>> Windows nowadays.....
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Jayanand
>>> 
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