William, I can swear my AthlonXP not only didn't like Lightroom much,
it seemed to reject it  by every way it could ;)

Seriously, when Lightroom was updating its thumbnails on this PCn the
PC was totally unusable. Not slow but simply unusable. I was really
scared (was that even a beta?). Indeed the SSE2 thing explains it well
enough.

Try it on a non SSE2 CPU, just for the fun of it :)

2007/2/20, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Roberts"
> Subject: Re: lightroom performance :: problems on a PC, etc
>
>
> > Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
> >
> >>John goes on to say "...Any other AMD users be aware that the
> >>earliest AMD CPUs to have SSE2 are the Athlon 64s. Anything earlier -
> >>forget it unless you only have tiny image collections or a massive
> >>amounts of patience.
> >
> > Thanks Godders! Very useful information.
> >
> > My new laptop has the latest incarnation ADM mobile processor, so it
> > should be OK. I'll have to upgrade my desktop before running Lightroom,
> > but that's in the works anyway.
>
> My (older) Athlon 64 didn't like Lightroom very much at all.
>
> William Robb
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