CHAPTER 2

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The Ideal System

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As with most applications the minimum specs for hardware to run Lightroom are fairly optimistic. It is, of course, perfectly possible to run Lightroom on a lower end computer, but you really won’t be getting the best out of it, you will probably end up waiting a lot and drinking too many cups of coffee!

This chapter will look at setting up a computer to run Lightroom from scratch, as well as for those who have systems and are looking for ideas of how to get the best performance gains.

If you have decided that Lightroom ...

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