Rick, the extra RAM and an SSD will do wonders for your system. Shop around though as $600-$700 sounds high to me.
The question of will it be worthwhile depends entirely on how hard you work the system. What size files do you edit? (Ie: APS-C or FF?) and do you do a lot of post-processing? Eg: lots of layers in Photoshop. If your editing is light, then your system once upgraded will work very nicely for you. I was able to get significant work done on a very similar system as yours until last year when my processing needs went up. On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > "Up periscope" after three weekends in Connecticut clearing out my mother's > apartment. > > My photo computer is a Mac Mini with a 2.4 GHz Core2 Duo processor, 8 gig > RAM, and a spinny internal hard drive (my pics are on a 1T external drive). > > I have been considering upgrading it with a 480 GB internal SSD and 16 GB > RAM. I figure that would cost $600-$700. > > Is it worth it, or is the performance of the i5 and i7-based Minis so stellar > that it's wortth spending the extra money? > > Cheers, > > Rick > > > http://photo.net/photos/RickW > > > > -- > 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.
