Last evening I built an up-to-date Mac OS X v10.4.8 system drive with the latest Aperture, PS-CS3 beta and Lightroom 4.1 beta on an external hard drive (fast 60G SATA laptop drive in a FireWire 400, FireWire 800, USB 2.0 compatible enclosure). Now I can boot up either my laptop or my desktop systems (PowerBook G4 1.67Ghz, 1.5G RAM or Power Mac G5 2.0Ghz DP, 3G RAM) to test all three of these without worrying about my production system's integrity ... just boot the system, unmount the internal drives, and go to work. It will also give me an idea of relative speeds/capabilities on both single and dual processor systems.
Somewhere in here, I'll get to some photography again REAL SOON NOW. ;-) I've been exercising and learning more about Lightroom on my production system for the past few days. The more I learn, the better it is. Working on the G5 booted by the testing disk, It imported/ copied the contents of my Fuji F30 'raw' (original-out of the camera- JPEGs) in about 10 minutes, organizing them into 'by date' shoot folder for me, etc: roughly 1800 files and folders. I was able to walk through all of them and do a first past ranking in about another 15 minutes. I'll toss a few more folders full of RAW files at it next, see how it does. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
