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2023-02-17 TESTED, Apple 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Adobe Lightroom Import/Export

2022-06-21 TESTED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Adobe Lightroom Import/Export

2022-06-20 Adobe Lightroom Memory Usage: Excessive?

2019-12-18 2019 Mac Pro: Most likely Slower than 2019 iMac 5K Unless Gobs of Memory or GPU or CPU Cores are Used

2019-03-24 An eGPU is Useless for Photoshop and Lightroom Unless...

2018-12-20 Apple 2018 Mac mini: Substantial Performance Gain over the Fastest 2017 iMac 5K

2018-03-07 iMac Pro 18-core Rocks Delivers Unprecedented Performance Gains for Adobe Lightroom, Trouncing the 2017 iMac 5K

2017-07-16 Apple Bug? 2017 MacBook Pro Has Impaired Performance Using Apple Power Brick vs OWC Thunderbolt 3 Dock + Why Does 800% CPU Usage Go Into Idle Clock Speed Mode?

2017-07-16 Adobe Lightroom Performance: Inefficiencies Could be Fixed

2017-07-14 2017 iMac 5K vs 2015 iMac 5K : Lightroom Import, Generate 1:1 Previews + Lightroom Export Full-Res JPEGs

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2023-05-29 Reader Comment: Adobe Camera Raw Mandatory Lens Corrections for Distortion/Vignetting Depends Arbitrarily on Camera Model

2023-05-28 Nikon Continues to Make Misleading Claims about Optical Distortion In Its Lenses

2023-01-11 Adobe Lightroom Rocks; Adobe Lightroom Sucks

2022-12-18 Adobe DNG Converter: Possible Loss of Metadata, Guaranteed Loss of File Dates, but Space Savings for Uncompressed RAW

2022-12-12 Sony Imaging Edge Viewer: Assembles Pixel Shift into Incompatible ARQ — Why Not Industry-Standard DNG? (REVISED)

2022-03-11 Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra Estimated Performance: Focus Stacking with Zerene Stacker, Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop

2021-10-26 Adobe Photoshop 2022 — Bye Bye to macOS Mojave Support

2021-03-18 Sony A1 Lossless-Compressed Raw Format: Update Photoshop and Lightroom and you’re 'good'

2020-12-30 Leica M10R White Balance and Tint in Adobe Camera Raw, SpyderCHECKR Card

2020-06-18 XMP Sidecar File Handling in Lightroom Non-Functional with DNG Files — inconsistent with Photoshop / Adobe Camera Raw Handling

2020-06-16 Hooray! Adobe Camera Raw Now Has Option to Always Use Sidecar XMP files with DNG

2020-04-20 FastRawViewer: Saving me a Lot of Time Organizing My Shoots Into Subfolders

2020-01-11 Phase One Capture One 20: Serious Pain Points for Organizing Large Shoots (Updated with Reader Comments)

2020-01-09 Adobe Lightroom Users Rejoice—Your Ship Has Arrived with the 2019 Mac Pro!

2019-11-29 Choosing a Computer for Advanced Photography (December 2019)

Apple 2022 Apple Studio M1 Ultra

Fastest Mac Yet?..

1. 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Recommended Models and Accessories
2. 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Lightroom Import/Export

Apple 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max

World’s fastest laptop, beats nearly all desktops..

1. 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Lightroom Import/Export

Apple 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max

Trouncing Intel-based laptops and desktops alike..

1. 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max: Lightroom Import/Export

Apple Mac mini (November 2018)

True desktop-class performance..

1. 2018 Mac mini: Adobe Lightroom Import/Export

Apple Mac Pro (December 2019)

Workhorse desktop tower..

1. 2019 Mac Pro: Lightroom Import/Export

Apple MacBook Pro Retina (late 2016)

Touchbar, wide gamut, unrivalled SSD..

1. 2016 MacBook Pro: Photoshop Filters
2. 2016 MacBook Pro: Adobe Lightroom Import RAW Files with 1:1 Previews

backup

Protecting your data from drive failures, theft, fire, flood, and dinosaurs..

1. Adobe Lightroom Catalog Backup

Using Apple Time Machine for Backup

How to use Apple Time Machine for Data Safety.

1. Starting a Time Machine Backup When Desired
2. Excluding Items from Time Machine Backup
3. Using Time Machine with Adobe Lightroom

Apple 2017 iMac Pro

High-end computing moves to the iMac form factor..

1. 2017 iMac Pro: Lightroom Import and Export

Apple 2017 iMac 5K

Even better than the 2015 model..

1. 2017 iMac 5K: Lightroom Import and Export

Apple Dec 2013 Mac Pro

Choosing among 4/6/8/12 cores, GPUs, memory, flash..

1. 2013 Mac Pro: Choosing the CPU

2013 Mac Pro Performance

Performance of the 2013 Mac Pro..

1. 2013 Mac Pro: Lightroom Import
2. 2013 Mac Pro: Performance Graphs

Upgrading Your Mac

When and Why to Upgrade Your Mac..

1. Case Study: Upgrade a MacBook Pro to Banish Sluggishness

Optimizing Photoshop CS5 Performance

The best hardware and configuration for Photoshop CS5..

1. The Photoshop CS5 Upgrade (Introduction)

Optimizing Other Photography Software

Speedups for working with images..

1. Optimizing Adobe Lightroom

Optimizing Mac Performance

Learn about Activity Monitor and understand how CPU cores, processes, memory use, and software scalability affect performance..

1. How to Reclaim Wasted Cache Space on Your Boot Drive

Mac Performance 101: Cores, Processes, Memory

Monitoring tips and application CPU core scorecard..

1. Application support for multiple CPU cores

How to Buy / What to Buy

Nuts and bolts of buying a Mac, and recommended extras..

1. Buyer's Guide: Setting up a Mac Pro

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

Special Report: Upgrade Now or Wait?.

1. Snow Leopard Performance
2. Memory and Drives for Snow Leopard

Apple Mac Pro Westmere 4/6/8/12-Core (Aug 2010)

Choosing among 4/6/8/12 cores, and is 2010 Mac Pro faster or better than 2009 model?.

1. Mac Pro Westmere RAW-file Import with Adobe Lightroom 3

Shootout: 8-core 2.93GHz or Quad-Core 3.33GHz?

Why 4 cores are often faster than 8!.

1. Nehalem Cores vs. Clock Speed: Digital Camera RAW-file Processing

Apple Mac Mini (Late 2012)

Apple’s first USB3 MacMini..

1. Mac Mini: Dual Drives Are Better than 'Fusion'

Apple MacBook Pro Retina Quad-Core (June 2012)

Apple’s 2012 MacBook Pro Retina Display..

1. 2012 MBP Retina and Photoshop CS5 / CS6

Apple MacBook Pro Quad-Core (February 2011)

A review of Apple’s first quad-core laptop..

1. RAW Import with Adobe Lightroom 3

2010 MacBook Air for Photographers?

How does the 2010 MacBook Air fare in the context of photography?.

1. MacBook Air 2010 Performance vs MacBook Pro

Mac Pro Memory

2009/2010 Mac Pro Memory — How Much for Performance?.

1. OWC 16GB Memory Modules Performance on 3.33Ghz 6-Core Mac Pro (2011 variant)
2. OWC 16GB Memory Modules Performance on 3.33Ghz 12-Core Mac Pro (2011 variant)

Blog posts

2023

2023-02-17 TESTED, Apple 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Adobe Lightroom Import/Export

2022

2022-06-21 TESTED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Adobe Lightroom Import/Export

2022-06-20 Adobe Lightroom Memory Usage: Excessive?

2019

2019-12-18 2019 Mac Pro: Most likely Slower than 2019 iMac 5K Unless Gobs of Memory or GPU or CPU Cores are Used

2019-03-24 An eGPU is Useless for Photoshop and Lightroom Unless...

2018

2018-12-20 Apple 2018 Mac mini: Substantial Performance Gain over the Fastest 2017 iMac 5K

2018-03-07 iMac Pro 18-core Rocks Delivers Unprecedented Performance Gains for Adobe Lightroom, Trouncing the 2017 iMac 5K

2017

2017-07-16 Apple Bug? 2017 MacBook Pro Has Impaired Performance Using Apple Power Brick vs OWC Thunderbolt 3 Dock + Why Does 800% CPU Usage Go Into Idle Clock Speed Mode?

2017-07-16 Adobe Lightroom Performance: Inefficiencies Could be Fixed

2017-07-14 2017 iMac 5K vs 2015 iMac 5K : Lightroom Import, Generate 1:1 Previews + Lightroom Export Full-Res JPEGs

2017-06-13 Apple Photos: Bad Idea + Downloading Images from iPhone/iPad/Other Devices using Apple Preview

2016

2016-12-03 2016 MacBook Pro: Cannot Sustain Performance Under Load

2016-12-01 Photoshop + Lightroom for a Year for $88

2016-12-01 2016 MacBook Pro TESTED: Lightroom Import RAW Files

2016-11-01 2016 MacBook Pro: the 16GB Memory Limit in the + CPU Speed vs Other Macs

2016-11-01 2016 MacBook Pro: What Options I Ordered, and Why

2016-05-17 When Software Crashes It is Immensely Frustrating: Why is Lightroom Crashing?

2015

2015-11-11 JPEG Batch Output in Photoshop and Lightroom: Rainbow-Beachball Hang Requiring Force Quit

2015-10-15 Reader Comment: Adobe Quality Control an Issue?

2014

2014-06-27 Apple to End 'Aperture' Support

2014-04-14 Reader Question: Upgrading Video Card for Adobe Lightroom in 2009 Mac Pro

2013

2013-12-22 Making an Old Dog of a Laptop Run Like a Young Puppy, Make Lightroom or Photoshop Fly

2013-12-18 2013 Mac Pro: Which CPU and GPU?

2013-10-22 Notes on the Apple 2013 Mac Pro

2013-10-07 Fast iMac or Mac Pro?

2013-10-02 Prices Drop a Little: Toshiba 3TB Hard Drives + OWC Mercury Accelsior PCie SSD

2013-07-29 Faster Workflow, Faster Lightroom, Faster Photoshop?

2013-07-13 Defrag or Upgrade to Faster/Larger? (Lightroom, Aperture, etc)

2013-05-08 Adobe Creative Cloud: Reader Comments

2013-05-06 Adobe Clouds Software Choice (Adobe Creative Cloud Only Going Forward)

2013-02-18 How to Speed Up Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

2012

2012-06-20 Understanding Photoshop and Lightroom Behavior with the MacBook Pro Retina

2012-06-20 Understanding Photoshop and Lightroom Behavior with the MacBook Pro Retina

2012-05-25 How Long to Convert 500 Nikon D800 14-bit NEF to JPEG?

2011

2011-06-18 Which Mac Pro for Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3.x?

2011-03-03 Tests of 2011 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz 4-Core vs 2010 2.66 GHz 2-core, Mac Pro

2010

2010-11-06 Case Study: Upgrading the 2010 MacBook Pro for Photoshop and Lightroom

2010-11-05 Adobe Lightroom 3.2 bug for image Import

2010-11-05 Adobe Lightroom 3.2 Import bug solved — aliases and symbolic links followed as “subfolders”

2010-10-29 MacBook Air — Comparing to MacBook Pro 13"

2010-04-22 RAW file processing on Apple MacBook Pro Core i7 with Lightroom, Aperture, CaptureONE Pro, DPP, NX2