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I finally treated myself to a decent Lightroom Classic PC and I can't stop grinning

Jan Roelof

Jan Roelof

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The Netherlands
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15.3
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  1. Windows 11
I am a photography amateur in the true sense of the word and love using Lightroom Classic both for managing my photo collection and postprocessing. But since I am just an amateur and not exactly rolling in money I could never justify to myself spending a lot of money on a PC. After all, any entry-level laptop or PC will easily handle everything I need it to do. Except, of course, Lightroom. I had a 6-year-old Lenovo all-in-one with an Intel I5 CPU, 16GB RAM, Intel UHD graphics and a rather plain 24" monitor. And , yes, Lightroom runs on it, but everything ... just ... takes ... so ... much ... time. Especially the ever more prevalent AI-based features can try a person's patience on that system, denoising being almost out of the question.

But now I took the plunge and spent 1850 euros on a brand new HP OmniStudio all-in-one (HP OmniStudio X AI All in One PC - 32-c0771nd). It has an Intel Core Ultra 7 155H CPU, 32GB of fast DDR5 RAM, an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 graphics card and 2TB of SSD NVMe storage. And a serious 32" 4K monitor with P3 (D65) support. I followed the instructions in Victoria and Paul's "Moving to a new computer" faithfully for a completely painless tranfer to the new system and working with Lightroom is now what I always dreamed it could and should be. As stated in the title: I can't stop grinning. Everything is now just so smooth, fast and apparently effortless. Denoising a photo now takes 11 seconds instead of 8 minutes for the same photo on the old system.

I'm just so happy that I needed to share :)
 
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That’s a good news story.. Well done.

Advice I got a long time ago… “For things you use every day… buy the best you can afford” . There is a real satisfaction in having good tools and with the evolution of Ai based toolset in LrC your timing is spot on.
 
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Gnits said:
That’s a good news story.. Well done.

Advice I got a long time ago… “For things you use every day… buy the best you can afford” . There is a real satisfaction in having good tools and with the evolution of Ai based toolset in LrC your timing is spot on.
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That and another thing. If you don't get it you wind up buying what you really wanted and it costs you twice as much. If you don't and settle it can gnaw at you.
 
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Jan Roelof said:
I am a photography amateur in the true sense of the word and love using Lightroom Classic both for managing my photo collection and postprocessing. But since I am just an amateur and not exactly rolling in money I could never justify to myself spending a lot of money on a PC. After all, any entry-level laptop or PC will easily handle everything I need it to do. Except, of course, Lightroom. I had a 6-year-old Lenovo all-in-one with an Intel I5 CPU, 16GB RAM, Intel UHD graphics and a rather plain 24" monitor. And , yes, Lightroom runs on it, but everything ... just ... takes ... so ... much ... time. Especially the ever more prevalent AI-based features can try a person's patience on that system, denoising being almost out of the question.

But now I took the plunge and spent 1850 euros on a brand new HP OmniStudio all-in-one (HP OmniStudio X AI All in One PC - 32-c0771nd). It has an Intel Core Ultra 7 155H CPU, 32GB of fast DDR5 RAM, an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 graphics card and 2TB of SSD NVMe storage. And a serious 32" 4K monitor with P3 (D65) support. I followed the instructions in Victoria and Paul's "Moving to a new computer" faithfully for a completely painless tranfer to the new system and working with Lightroom is now what I always dreamed it could and should be. As stated in the title: I can't stop grinning. Everything is now just so smooth, fast and apparently effortless. Denoising a photo now takes 11 seconds instead of 8 minutes for the same photo on the old system.

I'm just so happy that I needed to share :)
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Great news. I am half way there. I have the new PC, but have not been able to set it up yet due to a number of unexpected matters of late. Can't wait to join the club though.

--Ken
 
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Jan Roelof said:
Torture ...
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Yes, it has been frustrating. Normally I would have had it out of the box the day I purchased it. But since it was a custom build, it is mine regardless, and the shop is warranting it for some time, so that pressure was removed. I am starting to work on it now, and hope I can get it up and running soon. Not really looking forward to dealing with all of the Win 11 garbage that needs to be deactivated or uninstalled, but that just comes with the territory.

--Ken
 
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