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Equipment & Techniques => Computers & Peripherals => Topic started by: faberryman on June 12, 2019, 03:45:28 pm

Title: 2018 Mac Mini and Lightroom
Post by: faberryman on June 12, 2019, 03:45:28 pm

Does anyone have one of the new 2018 Mac Minis running the latest version of Lightroom? I am interested in whether the integrated graphics can run Enhanced Details, and, if so, what the processing time is. Thanks.

Title: Re: 2018 Mac Mini and Lightroom
Post by: kers on June 12, 2019, 04:48:13 pm

You can be sure it is very slow, since the mac mini does not have a seriuos GPU and enhanced details workes only on the GPU.
( i think i read something on this site about minutes)
May be an added eGPU might be a solution to overcome this problem. Have no experience with that.
LR itself benefits on the CPU- the more cores and the fater the cores rune the faster it is.

Title: Re: 2018 Mac Mini and Lightroom
Post by: faberryman on June 12, 2019, 05:16:08 pm

Quote from: kers on June 12, 2019, 04:48:13 pm

You can be sure it is very slow, since the mac mini does not have a seriuos GPU and enhanced details workes only on the GPU.
( i think i read something on this site about minutes)
May be an added eGPU might be a solution to overcome this problem. Have no experience with that.
LR itself benefits on the CPU- the more cores and the fater the cores rune the faster it is.

Enhanced details doesn't run on a late 2011 Mac Mini at all. The eGPU is a pretty big enclosure, negating the small slim footprint of the Mac Mini.

Title: Re: 2018 Mac Mini and Lightroom
Post by: Joe Towner on June 13, 2019, 01:59:38 am

There are smaller form factor eGPU's than the monster from BlackMagic - the Sonnet 560 & 670 pucks are pretty small - 6"x5.1"x2"