I've always upgraded my software incrementally as it came out. Standalone LR 6.8 runs beautifully on macOS v10.11/v10.12 in 4G RAM (presuming you have enough free disk space on the home drive), but runs better and better with 8, 16, and 32G … particularly if you are using it in conjunction with other disk and RAM intensive apps like Photoshop.
Pick the right options when purchasing if you want the perpetual license version. Adobe is pushing obnoxiously hard to get all their buyers onto the subscription plan. If you can't find the right options, call them and have them walk you through getting to the right perpetual license version. I've updated old Lightroom catalogs (from v3, v4, and v5 generations of LR) to LR 6.8 without any problems at all. If you're going to update at all, there's really no point to not updating to the latest. G > On Dec 27, 2016, at 6:01 AM, David J Brooks <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have 4.4 and am looking at getting 6.0, not the CC but the stand > alone. My version 4.4 does fine for what i want, but am looking at > upgrading my Nikon's to a D7200 or D500 so version 8 would be good for > those NEF files as well as my RAF Fuji files. Would save me a step by > converting to DNG and having extra large files on the computer > > Any one made that big of a leap from 4-6, > > OS X 10.11.6 > > Dave -- 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.
