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Subject: [Leica] Two gripes
From: chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com (Chris Crawford)
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 22:34:30 -0400

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.



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Chris Crawford
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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
> 
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