Now that I've had to go help a few unfortunate owners of new Win10
machines or (worse) upgraders from Win7 I have vowed I'm never going to
Win10. I am seriously thinking of turning myself into an Apple fanboy.
That, of course, requires running Photoshop on some sort of Mac
configuration. I don't want a Mac laptop (yet) and don't need a big
monitor (already have one) so I've been thinking of Mac minis. These
can be configured from about $500-2,000. What do I need in the way of
CPU, graphics processor and memory to get good Photoshop performance? I
make extensive use of ACR to process 16MP E-M1/M5 images and need to
consider that the E-M1 MkII will likely have the 40MP mode or maybe even
larger. Of course, such large image sizes will not be the norm but
probably do dictate 16GB RAM.
My current machine is an HP desktop with 8GB and an AMD A8 5500
quad-core at 3.2GHz with integrated graphics. Performance is similar to
an Intel i3 3220 although the AMD's graphics performance is better.
This has what I consider acceptable performance for 16MP images but
hardly bowls me over. For some reason recent startup performance in
Photoshop has become much slower. I've never timed it but it seems that
it's not really ready to rock and roll until it's been up for 20-30
seconds. After that performance is normal.
I'd love to have something that's twice as fast or even 3 times as fast
if that's possible.
Thanks,
Chuck Norcutt
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