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10/07/2011 09:35:16 AM · #1 |
so im getting fed up of aperture doing strange stuff and being slow, not help by 200gb library
was watching a friends work flow with lightroom and i think i might give it a go, i'll do a time machine backup on to an old external just incase i change my mind but has anyone got any thoughts on this?
regards
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10/07/2011 10:22:58 AM · #2 |
| Regarding that library size: do you know that Aperture easily supports multiple libraries? You can easily export projects as libraries, and import them into other libraries. I do this to keep a working library down to a few GBs, and an archive library at hundreds of GBs. This can help speed your Aperture experience significantly. |
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10/07/2011 10:32:04 AM · #3 |
LR is slow as a pig often as well (no I am not running a small machine).... I cannot suggest enough that you download the trial and give it a decent run on your specific hardware. I split the catalogue and the cache and the software to 3 drives and that has helped somewhat.
On a side note... There are sales everywhere for LR3 - which I cynically take to mean soaking the customers before LR4 comes out [you pay for major version upgrades].... This is adobe remember. I have no clue when that will happen... but if you can hold off for a while might be worth a thought. |
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10/07/2011 10:57:19 AM · #4 |
Originally posted by robs:
LR is slow as a pig often as well (no I am not running a small machine).... I cannot suggest enough that you download the trial and give it a decent run on your specific hardware. I split the catalogue and the cache and the software to 3 drives and that has helped somewhat.
On a side note... There are sales everywhere for LR3 - which I cynically take to mean soaking the customers before LR4 comes out [you pay for major version upgrades].... This is adobe remember. I have no clue when that will happen... but if you can hold off for a while might be worth a thought. |
A deal is still a deal, and that practice is no different then any other industry. If you buy LR3 at a discount price and LR4 comes out two months later you still got a deal on LR3 no matter how you look at it. It's either take the deal or pay the full price on LR4 when it comes out. At least at that point you can pay the upgrade price on LR4 and not the full amount which would normally come out to having paid the full price for LR4 when you combine the two. Also, there is usually a time frame that if you just bought the previous version say within 30 days you CAN get the upgrade for free. It depends on the vendor etc. Personally, I think it also boils down to consumer awareness. If I'm buying something I'm going to research any pending releases etc. so I don't fall into the "I should have waited" trap.
This time of year (October) the new car models start to come out, and last years models are discounted and pushed hard to clear inventory in order to make room for the new ones. A person who bought a 2011 model in August shouldn't expect a free upgrade to the 2012 model two months later. Same principle, but obviously on a much larger price differential. A business model that has been around since the beginning of commerce.
Dave
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10/07/2011 11:29:47 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by DCNUTTER:
A deal is still a deal, and that practice is no different then any other industry. If you buy LR3 at a discount price and LR4 comes out two months later you still got a deal on LR3 no matter how you look at it. It's either take the deal or pay the full price on LR4 when it comes out. At least at that point you can pay the upgrade price on LR4 and not the full amount which would normally come out to having paid the full price for LR4 when you combine the two. Also, there is usually a time frame that if you just bought the previous version say within 30 days you CAN get the upgrade for free. It depends on the vendor etc. Personally, I think it also boils down to consumer awareness. If I'm buying something I'm going to research any pending releases etc. so I don't fall into the "I should have waited" trap. |
Yeah agree... - I added that because it should be taken into account. If LR3 just came out then I wouldn't bother saying it but it's close to the point where adobe have swapped to the next release not just version and they have a bit of a habit of discounting software that is about to be upgraded :-/ In the end that is a guess and I have no clue when LR4 will happen.... |
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10/07/2011 11:36:28 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by robs:
LR is slow as a pig often as well (no I am not running a small machine).... I cannot suggest enough that you download the trial and give it a decent run on your specific hardware. I split the catalogue and the cache and the software to 3 drives and that has helped somewhat. |
I run Lr on two machines. One is very modern (Intel i7 2600K @ 3.4GHz, 8GB RAM, Win7 64-bit...) and one is an aging Dell Latitude D820 laptop (Core2 Duo T5500 @ 1.66GHz, 3GB RAM, WinXP 32-bit...). It is slow on the Dell, but it is very snappy on the i7 machine. And that's with no special precautions as far as where my cache goes. My library on the i7 is around 180GB, all in one place. The library on the Dell is smaller, around 35GB.
Downloading the trial and running it for a month is the way to go. When you purchase, there's no need to reinstall, just enter your code and away you go.
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