Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/12/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In general even a FW800 drive is going to be quite slow compared to an SATA/eSATA connected drive which transfers data about 3x faster. For the 17" i7, which I believe, has the ExpressCard slot, get a eSATA ExpressCard adapter and connect your external eSATA drive to that. I think you will find any application which has to run off external drives will run much faster. What would be ever better is to have your laptop modified by taking out the DVD drive and replacing it with another HDD but that requires sending the laptop to a bunch of strangers to butcher. :-) I really, really wish that Apple had kept the ExpressCard slot for the 15" MacBook Pro which I have. :-(( /sc PS. Add another 4 GB of memory will also do wonders for performance of memory intensive applications. On Dec 3, 2010, at 12:52, Harrison McClary wrote: > Earlier this summer I was getting VERY frustrated with slow response from > Lightroom on my Macbook Pro. I have the 17 inch i7 with 4 gigs of RAM...I > expected it to be VERY fast as this is the fastest Macbook Apple currently > makes. > > Anyway I discovered if I was patient and allowed Lightroom to download and > render all of its previews it was fast, but if I did not wait for all the > downloads and rendering to get done then sometimes it was just S L O W. > > My catalogs are all far more than the 9,000 images you are talking about. > > I was working completely from an external 500 gig hard drive connected > with a firewire 800 connection.