On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: >> How expensive is it in comparison to a refurbbed 24" iMac? > > I'm tired of trying to keep photos and Lightroom catalogs synced between my > laptop and our desktop; so I'm planning to stick with the laptop, a FireWire > drive, and a monitor.
I can understand that, although it's pretty easy to keep the original image repository and Lightroom catalog together on an external drive. Just plug that into whatever system you want to use, as long as you have Lr installed on it. (It's not the best performing setup ... that's done by keeping the catalog folder on the fastest drive and the image file repository on another drive in my experience.) BTW, USB2 on the new systems is so well optimized that for still photography work there's virtually no difference in performance between it and FireWire 400. Move up to FireWire 800 and you gain a little bit of additional throughput. My image repository drive is on the USB connection now and I don't notice any slow downs from having changed it. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- 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.
