I use a 27" iMac with an i5 and 8 gigs RAM. Currently this is more then enough for me. But if Apple releases an 27" Retina iMac... :)
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Posted 9 months ago #
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The latest iMac isn't Retina??? I'm surprised. The latest MacBook is, it looks superb..... If you've got the money!
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I use a 27" imac at work, and I can say, when it comes to printing it is nothing but trouble. Do Mac users really enjoy using PPDs?
About the only thing I like on a Mac is the doc, so i got a doc for my pc, it works well except the system tray icon's aren't as functional as on the task bar.
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SkintBrit said:
Windows XP is a big improvement on Vista (I've never used Win7).Does anyone else go in to msconfig, and use selective start up? I find limiting the apps that boot up when turning the machine on, realy improves responsiveness.
I do that all the time! If you right mouse click on your "my computer" icon and go to manage-services you can do some real damage there too.
I hope everyone doesn't get too caught up in the "Retina" hype. It is nothing more than the cheapest high-resolution screen apple could get it's hands on. Got to love Apple marketing! I'm not saying it's bad, just the only thing that is out there at the moment. They are very nice.
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@SkintBrit - though the resolution on iMac and MBP Retina is almost the same, the iMac screen is not a retina one due to the screen size.
@TaoTeJared - as an owner of the Retina MBP I can say that the quality of the screen is not bad, and the additional pixels DO change the quality of images, but... there's also a negative aspect - it requires much more "horse" power to run the screen = forget playing even WOW with high rez on it not to mention FPS.
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I'm loving the screen on my iPad III, and so are my clients when viewing my portfolio.
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It seems this thread might have jinxed my computer. Started running really slow last night so I rebooted and it hasn't worked again. Bios won't post at all. It was late so I didn't get to try much last night...hoping that I can make some progress after work today or I might be buying a new computer.
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You lucky so & so! Ten years I've had the same 28" LG CRT TV, and it refuses to go wrong, thereby giving me the excuse to buy one of those new fangled slim things. I've even tried leaving glasses of drink on top, and cables across the floor..........NOTHING!
:-) Good luck tcole1983, hope you get it sorted (or not?)
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Ha...well as much as I would like a new one...timing is horrible. We just started our daughter in daycare since my wife is back teaching for the school year and that ish is expensive. I know not as much as some places, but $185 a week isn't fun. Like both of our car payments combined :)
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I am using a 2012 13" macbook pro with an i7 processor 2.9 Ghz 8gb ram and i love it i upgraded(about a 3 weeks ago) from my acer aspire 5740 that i purchased 3 years ago and crashed on me and i lost some of my photos and videos because the night before i was out.
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Looks like hard drive is the problem...will hopefully pick up or order one tomorrow aand can recover something from the old one. Good thing all my pics are on an external drive but I might get double backup now. Bios POST fine after removing the hard drive. Tried to boot with an old drive and it didn't work but it seemed like it would with a new drive.
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TaoTeJared said:
I do that all the time! If you right mouse click on your "my computer" icon and go to manage-services you can do some real damage there too.Put a SSD drive in your desktop and that will take care of all your startup performance problems. An 80gb drive for your windows & application files will do and doesn't break your bank account anymore (prices per gigabyte are below 1$ by now).
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Motherboard and CPU just updated 5 days ago :)
Asus P8Z77-V LK Motherboard
Core i5-3570k
8 GB Kingston DDR3-1333
GeForce GTX 560Ti 1GB Factory Overclocked (For the one intensive game I actually play...)
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HP2311x LED Monitor
HP2011x LED Monitor (secondary)
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OCZ Agility3 60 GB SSD for OS / Lightroom / GIMP / Snapseed / Other small programs
WD 160 GB HDD for Games
WD Caviar Black 500 GB HDD for Photos
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Blu-Ray burner
DVD burner
Vantec Multi Card ReaderWorks very well with Lightroom / GIMP / Snapseed. Can't really say for Photoshop since I'm not a proud owner of that software haha.
When I'm on the go I'm using a Mid 2011 Macbook Air and "The New" iPad. I actually do more photo editing on the iPad on the road than the Air because I like the screen better on the iPad (who DOESN'T like Retina?)
Speaking of screens... my next upgrade is for sure going to be a higher quality display. The current hardware of the computer itself is just fine for what I do.
Anyone interested in my old i5-750 and intel DP55WG motherboard leftover from my upgrade?
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I'm thinking about upgrading my PC. One of the important aspects of the upgrade is to quicken my LR4 workflow. Any of you know, if LR can use 8 cores well? I currently have a quad core Phenom II and whenever I move a slider or change the magnification I get 100% cpu use in the task manager. (meaning all 4 cores are fully utilized) My budget let me buy either a quad core i5 Cpu like an Ivy Bridge 3450, or I can stick to AMD and get an FX 8120 quasi 8 core processor.
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Gabba href="http://nikonrumors.com/forum/topic.php?id=7462&page=3#post-107069">said:
One of the important aspects of the upgrade is to quicken my LR4 workflow.Afraid i know very little about processors but one way of speeding LR up is more RAM
how much do you haveDo you have any other programs open, eg photoshop
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Gabbb said:
I'm thinking about upgrading my PC. One of the important aspects of the upgrade is to quicken my LR4 workflow. Any of you know, if LR can use 8 cores well? I currently have a quad core Phenom II and whenever I move a slider or change the magnification I get 100% cpu use in the task manager. (meaning all 4 cores are fully utilized) My budget let me buy either a quad core i5 Cpu like an Ivy Bridge 3450, or I can stick to AMD and get an FX 8120 quasi 8 core processor.My 4 core 3570K and lightroom 4 seem to be fine. I used to have a little bit of lag with my First gen Core i5... LR is really CPU intensive when you're working with RAW.
I found that my 6 core Phenom II CPU benchmarked around the same as my first gen i5 so the 8 core will probably give you a boost if you like AMD.
On a side note, how much RAM do you have? This could also slow things down.
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8 gigs
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Gabbb said:
8 gigsSame as me. I'd think the CPU upgrade will probably help you. If you go Intel and can shell out the extra money for a 3570K versus 3450 you can probably push it to 4.0 or 4.1GHz on the stock cooler without any voltage changes or aftermarket coolers. The little boost in speed may help.
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rensuchan said:
Same as me. I'd think the CPU upgrade will probably help you. If you go Intel and can shell out the extra money for a 3570K versus 3450 you can probably push it to 4.0 or 4.1GHz on the stock cooler without any voltage changes or aftermarket coolers. The little boost in speed may help.The 3570K is just too expensive for me and I'm probably going to buy a "cheapest of the budget boards" motherboard to save there too, which would ruin any overclocking potential anyhow. (if I decide to go the trash the motherboard twice a year Intel route)
There are other considerations as well, I use the PC as a source for a fairly high end audio system and for that overclocking is generally a no go, dualbooting is ok, but I won't under-clock my cpu before every music listening session and turn it back up for sure :DThe big plus for the amd route is the fact that I don't need to buy a new motherboard then for a very long time, it's cheaper too and if LR can utilize 8 cores, it's definitely not slower (faster rather). The minuses are the obviously much weaker single core performance, which is unfortunately still important and it has a massive 125W TDP, which requires a massive cooler to be kept quiet. This whole thing seems mind boggling at this time, it doesn't really feel like a good time to upgrade, because the cheap-ish solutions are not even better than what my 3,5 years old PC has to offer...
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Funny thing is, when I watched what is going on in LR4, it seems it doesn't need more than 2Gb of RAM, so 4Gb is more than plenty and the 8Gb I've got is wasted. It gets used in Photoshop though.
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LR4 has some major bug which causes certain systems to run very slowly. Some people with VERY fast systems can barely get it to work.
I have an i5, 8 gigs of ram and a quadro 400 and LR4 is no problem. I think Adobe is looking at GPU compatability issues. I'm fine because they tested the quadros.
Do you has CS6? how fast does the latest bridge run on your system? if there are no issues with bridge and raw there is a good chance it is a LR issue and not your comp (or at least LR4 has issues with your hardware setup).
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Note: Adobe tested laptop and desktop versions of the following cards. Be sure to download the latest driver for your specific model. (Laptop and desktop versions have slightly different names.)
nVidia GeForce 8000, 9000, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500 series
nVidia Quadro 400, 600, 2000, 4000 (Mac & Win), CX, 5000, 6000
AMD/ATI Radeon 2000, 3000, 4000, 5000, 6000, 7000 series
AMD/ATI FirePro 3800, 4800, 5800, 7800, 8800, 9800, 3900, 4900, 5900, 7900
Intel Intel HD Graphics, Intel HD Graphics P3000, Intel HD Graphics P4000
Note: ATI X1000 series and nVidia 7000 series cards are no longer being tested and are not officially supported in Photoshop CS6. However, some basic GL functionality can be available for both these cards.
Posted 9 months ago # -
Just a quick up date
My dell Workstation is dying a low death
after some e mails to Skint
I have just ordered a HP Phoenix H9-1250EA Desktop PC, Intel Core i7, 3.4GHz, 12GB RAM
will let you know how I get on
once it is up and running, I will look at getting the Dell working as a spare
Posted 7 months ago # -
Does this sound good for D800e files? I want to have a computer with the best specs available in the new year so that it will no longer takes 20+ minutes to process each D800e mage on my current computer. So far I am thinking along the lines of 1TB hard drive, GE-Force graphics card, and 10 GB of RAM, Intel processor (speed 1.8-2.2) and Windows 8. Also, I should mention it needs to be a notebook computer and if I could keep the weight down in the 1.75-2.5kg area that would be excellent.
Posted 6 months ago #
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