Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2025/07/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is a help article.... My Desktop system is running fine but it is 9 Years old..... My laptop is 10 years old... I decided to try out a new Laptop, about 2 model years old.... I wondered if they were getting too long in the tooth.... so I made some measurements.... I used a set of 5 images that needed to be stitched.? They were put on a thumb drive, a new catalog was created, LR was updated to the most recent updates. The results showed that my 9 year old desktop computer was almost exactly TWICE AS SLOW as the new laptop.? I know that my older Laptop is even slower....it is an I5 processor. To be fair, I am retired, an amateur photographer, which all means that time is NOT money.....slow and cheap makes more sense. Then again, how slow is too slow? So I started to look at new hardware...... and read a lot of articles..... and consulted a lot of AI produced evaluations, all of which led to these conclusions..... No matter what your computer's age, do this to make it go faster.... MORE RAM!!! RAM is cheap. ? If your computer can upgrade to 32gb or 48 or 64, do it..... Just fill it up. Have your LR Catalog on a SSD inside your computer.? This is a major speed improvement. The SSD should NOT be a slower SATA version . It is fastest to keep your images on internal SSD as well, but depending on how many images you have, this may be impractical. NAS? is fast but complex to keep running.? Slower is an external USB SSD drive, and slower yet is a moving disk USB HDD. If you are buying a new computer, get an I7 processor (cores matter with some operations in LR).....? More cores = Better.... I9 is more cores and $$$ but reports are that they are not that much faster.? Stay away form the I5 or I3 processors. LR uses more cores when it is making previews or exporting images.....For single (common) image edits, not at all. You should select a graphics card with at least 6GB of video ram.? NVIDIA is apparently more stable than AMD. The Intel graphics solutions are workable but if you want to run faster, get the discrete graphics card solution. If you wish help, ask me..... -- Frank Filippone BMWRed735i at gmail.com