20 hours ago
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Re: Memory and other upgrades for photo editing
In reply to skyglider,
5 months ago
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skyglider wrote:
I would think that your current 4 core i7 running Win7 64 bits would be way powerful enough without buying a new laptop.
And I would prefer to not have to drop the amount of money it would cost for a high-speced laptop.
Although you can't "add" more memory, if your current memory is two 4GB sticks, would it be possible to replace it with two 8GB sticks for 16GB?
I don't think that the firmware can handle anything more than 8 GB but it is worth checking into. Thanks for the suggestion.
However, before doing that, have you tried unchecking everything in msconfig startup except what you really need to run Lightroom and your other photo editing software? Even working with 12MB image files it sure seems strange that you would use up 8GB of ram. Sounds like a memory leak somewhere.
My image files are from a Canon full-frame and are about 27-30 MB each.
I have not looked at the msconfig file, but I will. If I can find it. Thanks again.
As for a memory leak, who knows. The main software releases I am using are Lightroom 4, Photoshop CS5, PhotoNinja, the Fastsone Image viewer and IE. Any of those could be leaking memory and I would have to do some checking to see if loading and unloading images continually is causing a problem. Still, it is worth checking.
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