On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Matthew Hunt <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The LR3 system requirements are pretty modest, and can be met by a > 5-ish-year-old system: > * Intel® Pentium® 4 processor or equivalent > * Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 3; Windows Vista® Home > Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise (32 bit and 64 bit); or > Windows 7 (32 bit and 64 bit) > * 2GB of RAM > * 1GB of available hard-disk space > * 1,024x768 display > * CD-ROM drive > > So when someone says their system isn't powerful enough for LR3, they > probably mean it's not as fast as they would like for LR3... Maybe i looked at the spec;s on the Adobe web site wrong, my impression was my 9 year old clone PC pentium 4 with XP home and 756 meg memory, service pack 3 was not enough to run the program. Dave but for > me personally, photography isn't "the one thing" that makes me hit > that wall. I don't feel like the computer is too slow for > photography, but just dandy for everything else. > > Scott mentioned having an old Celeron that he feels is fast enough for > everything else, and I'm jealous of his patience. I just upgraded my > dad from a similar system. He didn't think it was too slow, > either--he just ran out of disk space, and without any SATA support in > his machine, I pushed him to a sub-$500 Core i3 system. I found > working on his old machine to be really painful, just for things like > web browsing and navigating the filesystem. I was swearing at it > pretty much constantly. I think it comes down to temperament, and how > used you are to faster computers... my dad has since said how much he > likes the new computer, and I bet if I switched him back to the old > one, he would not tolerate it like he did before. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
