Frankly its obvious that new development is only going to be on CC from this point forward. Lightroom 6 was constantly behind the CC version too, so that should say a lot about how much they care about it. Adobe wanted to pull this move to subscription all along. It makes sense if you regularly buy new versions of lightroom anyways. Frankly I pirated versions 2-5, but now that they have the CC versions I can just use my work copy legitimately. That said, if I had to pay the $10 a month I would gladly. I get way more than $10 a month of usefulness out of both products. People love to praise capture one, but it is basically twice as expensive and doesn't even have photoshop which I feel is a necessity anyways. Frankly I still like lightroom. It finally is playing nice again on my computer so I don't hate it like I did a year ago. Of course upgrading to the PC equivalent of a Macbook Pro didn't hurt either. Once you get your catalog file and previews on an SSD and get your ram in the 16-32gb range it will run pretty well even on an older computer with a fairly slow GPU. The ram and SSD are the big things. An sandybridge or newer i5 or i7 doesn't hurt either. It ran perfectly fine on my older crap Acer [email protected] when I stuck 16gb of ram in the machine. On 8gb it was pretty painful, especially when the OS was running off of a slow HD drive. I also have a 200k image catalog in lightroom. When I make a new catalog for small projects with just a few thousand images it is really fast. So unless your catalog isn't really huge, you can probably get away with even less of a machine. The big thing was just getting enough ram so you aren't swapping. LR alone can eat up 4-5GB of RAM pretty easily. If you stitch panoramas I've seen it use up to 20GB or so pretty easily. So its not really efficient in terms of ram usage for panorama creation. It does make a fully RAW panorama though which is really, really cool if you think about it.
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