Took a Bite of the Apple

Danno

Senior Member
Well, I went all in a bought an Apple iMac 27 and it came in Wednesday afternoon. Thursday I upgraded from 8 to 64GIG of RAM and I got PS and LR loaded last night and Topaz tools today.

In the realm of "I have no idea of what I am doing", I am working my way out. My guess would be I am still at about 60% in the hole, but I am moving slowly and I am to the point that I can process photos. I am uncertain if they are on the cloud or my 512 SSD but I can see them and get to them. The rest will work it self out with YouTube etc. I learned that I can use my iPad Pro as a second screen that is good to know I guess... we will see.

On the upside I have learned what 64GIG of RAM means. I put my QXD card with about 20 shots on it in the reader to import it and I did the normal things like keywords and hit the import button and it was done in seconds... My old PC with the same I7 processor and 16 GIG loaped along like a plow horse importing and building previews. That is no longer the case.

It seems I have a bit to learn about the beat but that will pass. I have time. I am sure there are a few that out here that might have some answers as well.

I have to say it makes post processing much nicer when you have less wait time.
 

Woodyg3

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Congrats on your new Mac. I'd bet you will love it. I have the same Mac, but with a 256 drive. I keep all my pictures on external drives, so I don't need a big internal drive,

The faster upload of pictures is likely due to the SSD drive rather than the RAM.

Have fun learning about your new toy, Dan !
 

Danno

Senior Member
Congrats on your new Mac. I'd bet you will love it. I have the same Mac, but with a 256 drive. I keep all my pictures on external drives, so I don't need a big internal drive,

The faster upload of pictures is likely due to the SSD drive rather than the RAM.

Have fun learning about your new toy, Dan !

Thanks Woody. It is quite different but it is getting easier. I did get an external ssd for my photos and blog stuff including a few years of posts. I am excited to learn things.
 

STM

Senior Member
Congrats on your new Mac. I'd bet you will love it. I have the same Mac, but with a 256 drive. I keep all my pictures on external drives, so I don't need a big internal drive,

The faster upload of pictures is likely due to the SSD drive rather than the RAM.

Have fun learning about your new toy, Dan !

I put an SSD in my desktop and was amazed at how much faster it ran. I was told by the people in the computer shop that for most applications anything more than 32 GB (which I have in it) of RAM is just wasted money unless you are running something like AutoCad. They also cautioned me not to put large files like RAW files on the SSD as it can cause them to crash so all of my photography and other important files are kept on a separate 2TB HDD in the computer and then backed up on 2 2TB external HDD's.
 

brads

Senior Member
I've been using/teaching Macs since 1994 and I still have things to learn. It seems that you gather and learn what you need along the way. You can find out the rest as you go. If someone asked me what I'd suggest to learn, I'd say 'Look at all the shortcut commands in the menus. Cmd C, Cmd V, and the many, many more. Great time savers. Enjoy your new iMac.
 

Danno

Senior Member
I put an SSD in my desktop and was amazed at how much faster it ran. I was told by the people in the computer shop that for most applications anything more than 32 GB (which I have in it) of RAM is just wasted money unless you are running something like AutoCad. They also cautioned me not to put large files like RAW files on the SSD as it can cause them to crash so all of my photography and other important files are kept on a separate 2TB HDD in the computer and then backed up on 2 2TB external HDD's.

They are amazingly fast. I have been using the SSDs for a while now. I bought my 1st 2TB ssd 2 laptops ago, just before the HD failed. I hav been running all SSD except one 4TB hard drive I use as a second backup. All the rest are SSD including the iMac drive.

Every laptop I have had has worked fine until the hard drive failed. In the past I have lost them in customer preso’s and in the middle of major projects so I have lost confidence in those spinning platters.

I am considering some commercial network had drives for a back up system that monitors drives to prevent failure. It is a NAS SETUP for the novice.
 
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Danno

Senior Member
I've been using/teaching Macs since 1994 and I still have things to learn. It seems that you gather and learn what you need along the way. You can find out the rest as you go. If someone asked me what I'd suggest to learn, I'd say 'Look at all the shortcut commands in the menus. Cmd C, Cmd V, and the many, many more. Great time savers. Enjoy your new iMac.

I have been plodding along and picking some stuff as I go. YouTube has helped a bit too. I will be looking at those shortcuts. Thanks!
 
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