on 2013-08-31 11:42 Larry Colen 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.
your iMac is of a vintage that is not decrepit, but still aging; i would
hesitate to invest much in it; several different subsystems are at a
disadvantage: slower memory bus, max-RAM limits and the fading fluorescent
backlight, to begin with; as for SSDs, its SATA-II bus can be more than
saturated by mainstream SSDs; plus newer Macs have both USB 3 and Thunderbolt,
which give you options for fast external (and bootable) storage even without
cracking the case
even a Mini with an SSD might be faster than your iMac with an SSD, but current
Minis use "integrated graphics", and the last Mini that didn't (the one i have)
only has USB 2, so there is a performance plateau with Minis that the iMacs can
exceed; personally i find processing images is really bogging me down (MBP,
quad i7, 16GB RAM, spinning disk), and i'm about to add a 1TB Crucial M500 or
Samsung Evo, but i think i may still be hamstrung by sharing photo processing
with other functions (browsers chew up RAM), so dedicating an iMac to photos
plus light duty server functions might be a real win (plus i can use its
display with my MBP)
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