Put an SSD in your iMac. You won't regret it. On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 4:57 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
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