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Upgrade report - SSD & photo software
I finally gave up on the cloning, and did a fresh install of Win 10 on
a new SSD. The point of this was to see if I could rejuvenate a 7 or 8 year old laptop, and to see how much better LR would work with only the change from HDD to an SSD. The laptop is maxed out at 8 GB memory, and has a 2.2 Ghz Intel CPU. The main test I used was the spot removal function, which was usable, but terribly crippled before the changes. After choosing a large-ish target area, I would move the source area around to see how easily it would follow the mouse movement. Before the SSD, it would take forever. So the verdict is that the SSD made a huge difference, and is definitely worth a try if you have a PC that seems a bit sluggish working with photo software. Spot removal now works nearly as well as on my far better spec'd desktop. It's like having a new laptop. But... Windows still sucks. I think. Repeated crashes and forced restarts, especially when installing software, but at other random times, also. At the same time, this laptop is not supported for anything past Win 7 - no chipset updates at all. So if you do have some interest in trying the same thing, check to see what OS your laptop supports. I think you can force Win 10 onto just about anything that's not an antique, but you should expect problems. Mine seem to have diminished considerably. Maybe Windows fixes itself. And if you're happy with an earlier version of Windows, an SSD will almost certainly be a huge improvement. |
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