I just finished putting an SSD and more memory in my macbook. I did a very rough, informal benchmark.
So, my two photo systems are: 24" iMac, 2.4Ghz core 2 duo, 6GB ram, catalog on internal spinny drive, raw files on network mounted drive, via gigabit ethernet (much faster than the USB 2 setup) 13" macbook, 2.2GHz core 2 duo, 6GB ram, catalog and files on SSD drive. 11 freshly imported files, processed to 1:1 previews macbook 1:27 - 87sec imac 1:54 - 114sec So, the two systems are very similar except for storage, the iMac has about a 10% faster processor, even so, heavy processing of files was about 30% faster. Catalog intensive actions like backing up a catalog, seem a lot faster on the macbook. I haven't compared processing the same files mounted on the network drive. At four times the screen area, the iMac is a lot easier to work on though. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- 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.
