A little late to post about Adobe’s Lightroom 3 Beta, as it’s been available for weeks now, but since I had already downloaded and installed it on my Macbook, I forgot to look into compatibility with my tower at home.
As it turns out, Lightroom 3 will not support PowerPC which, for me, means I’m left out for this upgrade. I do all of my photo processing on a dual 2.7ghz G5 which happens to be plenty fast enough for the task, but is running off the wrong chipset. It’s truly a shame that a perfectly good $3000 tower isn’t capable of running new software. What’s worse is that I can only get about $600 on ebay if I were to try to sell it.
Adobe Lightroom Beta 3 has the following requirements for Mac:
Mac OS
- Intel based processor
- Mac OS X v10.5 or 10.6
- 2GB of RAM
- 1GB of available hard-disk space
- 1,024×768 display