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Subject: [Leica] Not yet upgrading to LR4
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 01:14:25 +0100
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Thanks again, Richard

looks like a custom-built job for me.

Best
Douglas

On 13.03.2012 22:57, Richard Man wrote:
> I would certainly go for a configurable box from someone rather than a name
> brand. For us photographers, we really want the fastest CPU, but not
> necessarily bazillion cores (e.g. 4 cores at 3 GHz of the same processor
> will be better than 8 cores at 2.66 Ghz - for the SAME processor), the
> mostest memory (8Gb minimum, 16GB is much better and 32GB will get
> diminished return) and just a plain decent card and the fastest SATA drive.
>
> For $3000-$4000, in US, I could get i7 @3GHz, may be 8 cores (again 4 would
> be fine), at least 16 GB, probably more like 32GB, 2 TB 10,000 RPM drive
> and a decent card easily. So you are good to go.
>
> Just a few other drives for continuous backup, but they are cheap.
>
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Douglas Sharp<douglas.sharp at gmx.de>  
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Richard, I'll look into it.
>>
>> Or what do you think of these people?
>>
>> http://www.happyware.de/en/
>>
>> They're more or less just up the road from me, close to Hamburg - I
>> translated some marketing stuff for them recently - and they appear offer
>> some pretty good custom deals.
>>
>> Maybe I'll ask them for a quote. I'm thinking of a limit of 2-2.5 thousand
>> euros - so that should get me quite a bit of power and speed.
>>
>> Best
>> Douglas
>>
>>
>> On 13.03.2012 21:00, Richard Man wrote:
>>
>>> Doug, get the i7 machine and load it with at least 16 GB. 32 GB if you 
>>> can
>>> afford it. If you can't afford SSD, then get the 10,000 RPM drive.
>>>
>>> The video card won't make much difference for Photoshop. Just get a 
>>> decent
>>> one with at least 512MB.
>>>
>>> Run Win7 x64 of course.
>>>
>>> Your quality of life will improve a lot :-)
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Douglas Sharp<douglas.sharp at 
>>> gmx.de>**
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>   Hi Mark,
>>>> thanks for the advice - I'm currently looking at Lenovo Workstations 
>>>> with
>>>> lots of number-crunching abilities that can speed up my translation
>>>> databases and not slow down to a crawl when using Photoshop CS (I'm
>>>> currently working with 250 MB files of scanned mining maps and it is S l
>>>> o
>>>> w! - only 2.4GBs of RAM).
>>>>
>>>> Anyone heard anything particularly good or bad about Lenovo?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Douglas
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 13.03.2012 17:52, Mark Pope wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   Hi Doug,
>>>>> I would be inclined to install Lightroom3 on the Windows 7 machine
>>>>> first,
>>>>> then migrate your images/catalogue over by exporting it from the XP
>>>>> machine, then import on the Windows 7 machine.  Only when you're
>>>>> satisfied
>>>>> that everything is working satisfactorily on the Windows 7 machine
>>>>> would I
>>>>> upgrade.
>>>>> You may also have to copy any settings you have made in the print
>>>>> module,
>>>>> for example for any bespoke print sizes, as these aren't part of the
>>>>> catalogue.
>>>>> Printer profiles will also need to be installed on the new machine.
>>>>>
>>>>> Have fun!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Mark Pope,
>>>>> Swindon, Wilts
>>>>> UK
>>>>>
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