Digital BW, The Print

Hey Bill,
Light room is a hungry resource application that's for sure. But we should not confuse processing needs or horsepower with ram..  Lightroom's real work... preview rendering , loading images into the Develop module and making corrections like luminance  noise , color noise or lens correction etc are all done by the processor.. not ram.. It's just needs enough ram to function in partnership with the work requests... So I think , constructively a conversation about what processor makes a difference and how much ram along with that..  I think we get deceived a lot on what ram does.. what it is not is an answer for a lesser processor. The later versions of Photoshop and also Lightroom take full advantage of the latest in processing horsepower.....their resource hogs as far as we see.. Anyway, to have access to 8gb of ram we must have a 64 bit OS but  if were really looking to bump up we need to also look at the processor.. We run both macs and PC's here.. While in lots of ways were running behind many of you guys out there as were late typically to step up to the latest hardware.. We did just recently add a couple of Dell Precisions that are off lease. One was two dual core the other two quad cores.. both started 8gb of ram.. With Lightroom the quad is hands down the winner.. It was also bumped to 20gb of ram and I didn't really notice a performance increase with LR .. as compared to the very apparent  processor difference between the two machines. I guess if were using LR to process huge files then of course more is better.. no argument there.. The only thing I'm trying to say is that ram is not a substitute for a better processor. So we need to look at both sides of it. 

jimbo
----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bill Poff 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrintdone when it's @yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 4:15 PM
  Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Re: I am thinking of getting rid of Lightroom


    
  How much RAM is dedicated to LR4? You could have 8GB in your system and
  still be starving LR4 for RAM.

  Regards,

  Bill

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  From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
  [mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Bob Rapp
  Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 3:38 PM
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
  Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Re: I am thinking of getting rid of Lightroom

  What is your secret? I am Win7 64-bit as well with 8 gig of Ram, plenty of
  hard drive space and the ATI v4800 graphics card.

  Bob Rapp

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  From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
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  <mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint%40yahoogroups.com> ] On Behalf Of Bob
  Frost
  Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 1:32 PM
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
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  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: I am thinking of getting rid of Lightroom

  From: Bob Rapp
  > I have tried LR4 and it is slow, blows up on my Windows 7 quad core 
  > system -
  > totally unusable.

  Quite the opposite on my Win7x64 system. I'm now using it instead of LR3.6. 
  Far superior raw processing, and no problems at all with speed or crashes.

  BobFrost

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