Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/06/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm running Lightroom 1 on a Powermac G4 (dual 1.25 MDD). It runs fine. So does Photoshop CS2. I'd like to buy a newer mac, but cannot afford it. -- Chris Crawford Fine Art Photography Fort Wayne, Indiana 260-424-0897 http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com My latest work! On 6/19/10 10:30 PM, "wildlightphoto at earthlink.net" <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> wrote: > Jeff Moore wrote: > >>>> > Yeah, Snow Leopard is an all-around win. Faster *and* smaller. > > Unless he has a PowerPC machine. Trying to remember if any versions > of Lightroom used to run on PowerPC. > <<< > > IIRC the first trial version did. > >>>> > But keeping a PowerPC machine going in this day and age, especially > for something as CPU-intensive as photo editing, seems a huge exercise > in frustration. > <<< > > Yes it is. > >>>> > I suspect that even the new little Mac Mini, which is > tiny, quiet, and dissipates about as much power as rubbing your hands > together, is faster (except for the disk subsystem) than even the > giantest G5. And the power consumption difference is epic. > <<< > > A Mac Mini is on my shopping list. It comes after SWMBO's new car, > repairing both bathrooms and > removing the hazardous trees. And maybe replacing the truck I wrecked last > week. IOW, it will be a > while, and probably used. At least Phocus is free (but it doesn't run on a > PowerPC computer). > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > mail2web.com - Microsoft? Exchange solutions from a leading provider - > http://link.mail2web.com/Business/Exchange > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information