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Here is my Mac mini: (Publicly available Developer OS)
And my Mac Pro for comparison:
The Geekbench numbers are an interesting method of comparing systems but what really counts is real world performance and reliability.
I ran some stopwatch tests last evening.
From a cold start (re-boot) of my Mac mini:
Lightroom CC: 55.3 seconds
Photoshop CC: 45.5 seconds
Re-launching Lightroom CC having Quit the software: 9.3 seconds
Re-launching Photoshop CC having Quit the software: 6.8 seconds
From a cold start (re-boot) of my Mac Pro:
Lightroom CC: 5.5 seconds
Photoshop CC: 7.5 seconds
Re-launching Lightroom CC having Quit the software: 4.5 seconds
Re-launching Photoshop CC having Quit the software: 4.6 seconds
Timing by hand held stopwatch.
The faster *re-launch* times are due to the OS not clearing the software from memory unless or until that memory is required for other tasks.
The startup and software launch times are of themselves pretty irrelevant given it's once the software is running that you need the performance but it is indicative of the speed at which the software can launch individual tools and how quickly they work.
Lightroom definitely feels a LOT quicker on the upgraded Mac Pro and that was what this exercise was all about. It was getting a bit painful on the Mac mini. Particularly for quickly browsing newly imported images during the basic culling session.
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Robert.