Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/08/12

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Subject: [Leica] OT - those thinking of a 36MP camera.....
From: john at mcmaster.co.nz (John McMaster)
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 08:22:44 +0000
References: <003601cd7858$b9ca7200$2d5f5600$@chiaroscuro.co.nz>, <AE253E8E-6968-4090-9C83-C768161013EF@btinternet.com>
 
I run iStat Pro on my laptops, good software.

john
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I have a utility on my Mac called iStat menus. One can configure it how one 
likes but I have permanently in the top menu bar the processor load, CPU 
temperature and network speed, amongst others.

cheers,
Frank

On 12 Aug, 2012, at 08:04, John McMaster <john at chiaroscuro.co.nz> wrote:

> It is far slower to work on D800E (lossless compressed) 40MB files than M9
> (uncompressed) 36MB files.
>
> I have a reasonably grunty machine so I went looking at what the bottleneck
> is......
>
> Mid-2009 Mac Pro (2x 2.26 quad-core Intel 5520 CPU) was running at over
> 1300% CPU (16 threads available) briefly while doing minor changes, be 
> aware
> of this limitation if thinking of upping your camera MP ;-)
>
> john
>
>
In reply to: Message from john at chiaroscuro.co.nz (John McMaster) ([Leica] OT - those thinking of a 36MP camera.....)
Message from Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie) ([Leica] OT - those thinking of a 36MP camera.....)