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Hi all,
I'm trying to help my sister choose a new computer set up as hers is so slow now.
She uses a D810 so quite big raw files. She takes 500-2000+ photos a week and her catalogues are big. She is trying to use photo mechanic to cull images but this isn't working to import images in to lightroom at the moment. But regardless she is needing an updated set up.
The issue she is having is that when she uses light room, it is incredibly slow and she thinks this is due to the cataloguing size and that she's having to use external hdds for her catalogues (and also this means things get mixed about as the drive letters change) as her internal hdd is 1tb and this gets filled up quickly. It is very slow especially when editing through light room
I'm much more familiar with Pcs and was hoping that someone might be able to guide with mac vs pc. Is switching to mac quite straightforward if you haven't used one before?
It'll be used for a lot of light room and some photoshop.
The budget is £2-4k
The Mac she looking at is
Probably a Mac studio with 64gb ram m1 ultra processor and 1 or 2tb ssd hdd.
My questions about mac:
This mac studio only has the ssd hard drive, is there an effective way of using external hdds with this? Just as I assume it'll get filled up with programs as well as images etc.
For a Pc I was going to suggest:
CPU: I9-12900k
Ram- 64GB 3200mhz
GPU: 6GB GEFORCE GTX 1660 (will this gpu speed up lightroom/photoshop or does it need to be beefier?)
Hdds: 2x2tb SSDs and 2x4Tb hdds
But she is after something a bit physically smaller and is looking at mini pc style ones. Will these be suitable?
I was also going to suggest a NAS drive so any help with this would be appreciated but I might make a separate post about that
Any help massively appreciated!
I'm trying to help my sister choose a new computer set up as hers is so slow now.
She uses a D810 so quite big raw files. She takes 500-2000+ photos a week and her catalogues are big. She is trying to use photo mechanic to cull images but this isn't working to import images in to lightroom at the moment. But regardless she is needing an updated set up.
The issue she is having is that when she uses light room, it is incredibly slow and she thinks this is due to the cataloguing size and that she's having to use external hdds for her catalogues (and also this means things get mixed about as the drive letters change) as her internal hdd is 1tb and this gets filled up quickly. It is very slow especially when editing through light room
I'm much more familiar with Pcs and was hoping that someone might be able to guide with mac vs pc. Is switching to mac quite straightforward if you haven't used one before?
It'll be used for a lot of light room and some photoshop.
The budget is £2-4k
The Mac she looking at is
Probably a Mac studio with 64gb ram m1 ultra processor and 1 or 2tb ssd hdd.
My questions about mac:
This mac studio only has the ssd hard drive, is there an effective way of using external hdds with this? Just as I assume it'll get filled up with programs as well as images etc.
For a Pc I was going to suggest:
CPU: I9-12900k
Ram- 64GB 3200mhz
GPU: 6GB GEFORCE GTX 1660 (will this gpu speed up lightroom/photoshop or does it need to be beefier?)
Hdds: 2x2tb SSDs and 2x4Tb hdds
But she is after something a bit physically smaller and is looking at mini pc style ones. Will these be suitable?
I was also going to suggest a NAS drive so any help with this would be appreciated but I might make a separate post about that
Any help massively appreciated!
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