On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 02:01:40PM -0400, Bruce Walker wrote: > Larry, are you absolutely sure it can't be upgraded? Your specs "24" > iMac, 2.4Ghz core 2 duo, 6GB ram" sound _exactly_ like mine (except > mine's a 20") and I'm happily running 10.8.4. The key thing is you > need at least a Core 2 CPU.
Interesting. When I first looked It said something like you needed one from late 2008 or newer, and mine was from 2007. I forget the exact dates, but that mine was from just before the cutoff. Now, it looks like it might actually work on mine. > > To open it up you need two small suction cups (dollar store) and a > couple of Torx drivers (T8, T6). And about 3 hours spare. :-) You also > need a way to attach the HDD externally later after you install the OS > and need to copy your old account and apps back into the SSD. That > copy will run overnight (at least 8 hours). Yup, I ran into that with the macbook, it took something like four hours to transfer the contents. > > > On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 05:36:22AM -0400, Bruce Walker wrote: > >> Put an SSD in your iMac. You won't regret it. > > > > Yeah. I'm definitely going to end up with an SSD in my main photo > > processing machine. The question is whether that'll be my current > > iMac (which is a pain to open up) or some other machine, because with > > this one, I can't upgrade OSX, and without a newer OSX I can't upgrade > > Lightroom. > > > > So, if I decide for a newer box, where do I get the most bang for my buck? > > > > Or, if I keep the iMac, do I replace the flakey DVD with another DVD, or > > with a 4TB spinny drive? > > > > in any case, I think finances will dictate waiting a couple of weeks. > > > >> > >> 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. > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> -bmw > >> > >> -- > >> 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. > > > > -- > > 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. > > > > -- > -bmw > > -- > 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. -- 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.
