Where do you find your present laptop to be a bother? If it is only when you import or export, then it would seem that the key design element you need to look for is fast I/O bus, USB-C or Thunderbolt 3. And then, yes, test as you suggest. But I don’t know how such a test would tell you anything about using LR to process your files. Wouldn’t processing use totally different aspects of the system? In my own experience, I have an older laptop. MacPro, but that doesn’t matter. I stopped traveling with it because it was too slow. Where I noticed the slowness was e.g. when I had a Grid View, selected a new image, and then switched to Develop module. And then waited and waited while a full size preview was generated. If I were going to test a new system for relative speed, I think some aspect of rendering or processing adjustments might be more important that simple I/O tests. I now use a iPad instead, defer any serious processing until I am back home. Even my 3-4 year old iPad is faster than my 10-year old laptop.
stan > On Oct 28, 2019, at 4:58 PM, Jos de Fotograaf <josdefotogr...@4prof.nl> wrote: > > Dear group, > I need a new laptop and want one that is faster on Lightroom processing than > my present HP pavilion with i7 and SSD > I think of ordering several "mobile workstations" upto 2000euro and do a > comparative test with them. > Thinking of i7, 8th or 9th generation / 4 or 6 cores/16 or 32 GB/ 512 or 1000 > GB SSD > I will keep the best and send the others back. > But how to test? > I was thinking: > > * measure time to import 20 K1 DNG files > * or export 20 K1 DNG files to high quality JPEGs > > Would that be a good approach? > > Or better tests? > > Tanks in advance, greetz, Jos > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
