D800 14-Bit NEF Editing Performance on LR4 Requirements

[neoro]

I have a dell studio 14 (old one) on the first generation i7 which I have upgraded to the intal 520 - 120GB ssd - Be careful of the sizing of the SSD inside your laptop as not all fits exactly.
The challenge i see with additional monitor is heat - that added when you process pictures, may just trigger the auto shutdown safe feature in the processor.
Happened to me a few times....

On the other note...
I manage to pull up 14GB of ram usage when I was crunching up a Pano tiff stitch of a few shots on the D800E
Now I am thinking if shooting uncompress raw can actually help performance.
if its not essential shooting, just casual, can just shoot and filter and delete.
Keeping only the keepers outside of ssd to Raid storage --

My laptop is running a nVidia GT 420M with 1024 mb so I presume it's not a problem.

However the max ram supported by my laptop is 8 gb due to limitations of older i5 m processor. By the way I'm using the Dell XPS L501X with RGBLED screen.

As of now I have monitored the RAM usage and it has not exceeded 4.5 GB on my full screen LR4 work but preview loading and going to the next frame is laggy. As discussed I am plugging my Dell 2711 screen (2400 x 1600) to it, it is very fast on native resolution of 1920 x 1080.

I am now considering to upgrade to an Intel 240 GB SSD first them consider whether I will need to go or a full fledged desktop.

[lenslust]

Bro, try switching between pictures in develop mode. Can tell us how much time for the loading spinner to disappear? Mine took at least 5 seconds.

Will try and see, I'm not using D800 tho'

[ellery]

My rough guess is that the minim to handle would be at least a quad core - a core duo is very sluggish when running LR4 with D800 nef files. If you clone good luck to you it hangs sporadically.

[Cowseye]

Will try and see, I'm not using D800 tho'

My speed doubles when processing D700 files compare to D800. Though it's still slower than when I did it with LR3....

[lunas]

My speed doubles when processing D700 files compare to D800. Though it's still slower than when I did it with LR3....

I just came across this thread...
Wah...nowadays, upgrade cam must upgrade software + hardware....xiong!!