Not an answer to your question, but an alternative to think about. I have a perfectly functional 7-year old laptop. I have lately used it only for photo processing while traveling. Increasing frustration as newer software and larger files bogged down my work.
I had specced a new MacBook Pro with max memory etc. Looked at the price. Said screw it. On my recent four week trip to Chile I took multiple SD cards, a backup hard drive that reads directly from SD cards, and my iPad. I shot RAW + jpeg. Backed up and stashed the SD cards when full. I downloaded all jpeg images to my iPad. Did minimal processing along the way within Photos on the iPad. (Some pano stitching, color balance, sharpening... Basically minor tweaking.) Mostly just to share with traveling companions and people back home. Once back home I deleted the jpegs from my iPad. Downloaded the RAW files from their SD cards to Lightroom on my desktop and started processing. I am still trying to think of reasons to keep my old laptop. My iPad does everything faster and better than my laptop except the photo processing bit. If I had publication deadlines to worry about or some other time pressure, I would reconsider. stan Sent from my iPad > On Feb 11, 2016, at 9:56 PM, Mark C <[email protected]> wrote: > > A couple days ago I dropped my 9 year old laptop and the hard drive was > trashed. I replaced it with one that I had on hand and am now completing the > process of downloading and applying every Windows Vista update patch ever > issued... One of the few things I still use this laptop for is processing > photos while traveling. My phone now handles email, casual web browsing, etc. > > The laptop has a decent dual core processor (Intel Core 2 T5300) and 4 gigs > of ram. I've been using Photoshop CS 5.1 and bridge to review and do some > light processing of photos. K3 DNG files are pretty slow on this setup, K5 > files were not too bad. > > So - before I reinstall Photoshop, any suggestions about a leaner and faster > program for basic raw file processing? I don't want to spend much money since > I could upgrade to a much more competent laptop for a few hundred dollars. > But maybe there is a sleek and simple photo editor out there. > > I'm also wondering if an earlier version of Photoshop might be the sweet spot > in terms of light footprint. > > Any suggestions? > > Mark > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
