Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/07/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I agree with what previous responders have said. LR did crawl some time ago, when I had a memory leak in Firefox, and available memory got down to a few hundred bytes. I just did some operations in LR while watching disk activity in Activity Monitor. While it is hard to make a quantitative evaluation of what I saw, the graphic display showed peaks of activity with plenty of empty time space between these peaks, indicating that my internal disk was working a fraction of the time. I would therefore conclude that having a faster storage device would not make a detectable difference. Herbert Kanner kanner at acm.org 650-326-8204 Question authority and the authorities will question you. On Jul 17, 2013, at 6:35 PM, Peter Cheyne <peter.cheyne at gmail.com> wrote: > I use a Macbook Pro from around 2008 (2.33 Core 2 Duo) and it's starting to > get slow. Especially with Lightroom tasks. I upgraded it to 4 GB Ram (3 GB > usable RAM). > > My friend says I should think about changing the HDD for an SSD. Would this > really make the computer generally faster, and would it mean less waiting > around for Lightroom to do things like zoom in on photos and export > selected DNGs as JPGs? > > All the best, > > Peter > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information