My current computer is almost exactly four years old now. I bought it in anticipation of the *istD, realising that I needed more computing power to deal with digital imaging. My previous computer was from 1999, and hardly up to the task of scanning slides.
I'm expecting delivery of components for a new computer tomorrow. Ordering now is a direct consequence of a fortnight's frustration over dealing with K10D raw files on my current hardware. I use LightZone for converting DNGs, and the file-save operation takes on average 115 seconds (tested 5 files today) on the current hardware. What you say is indeed encouraging. Jostein 2007/7/15, Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I got my new computer a week ago but, life being that complex thing it > is, didn't have time to start setting it up until two days ago. For a > while I debated just copying everything, OS and all, from the old > computer and doing an OS upgrade. But I eventually decided to start > from a clean install, install all the apps I need (and *only* the apps > I need) and just copying the data files. Glad I went that route. > > CPU, memory and various system busses are all faster, of course, but I > think the fast SATA hard drives and dual-core processor probably make > the biggest difference. Big-ass image files load much quicker now and > complex multi-tasking seems to stress the system less :) > > Moreover, I was finally able to load Lightroom on my desktop machine! > It's a *much* more satisfying experience on a big monitor with a good > mouse and full-size keyboard, let me tell ya! And it positively flies > on this machine. Veeeery nice. > > Still a few more apps to load and "personalization" tasks to complete, > but it's nice to have it operational. Life is good ;-) > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
