A discussion facilitated by Joe Houghton - September 27th 2025

Next sessions in this series:

• 25th October 2025 - Backups

• 22nd November 2025 - The Lightroom catalogue

• 3rd January 2026 - Using Lightroom Classic with Lightroom Mobile, Portfolio etc

• 31st January 2026 - Lightroom masking techniques

• Table of Contents

What’s today about?

• Going through what you’d need to look for if you were buying a new computer today to run Lightroom, Photoshop and other software typically used by members
• Same around external storage - this can often be cheaper than upgrading your internal disks (if that is even possible as Macs often don’t let you)
• Or maybe you want to explore whether you could upgrade your current kit - let’s look at options there and the pro’s and con’s…
• Clarifying some of the common technical terms around computers and storage - see the Glossary section at the bottom)
• Answering any questions around computers and storage that you might have - I’ll do my best!

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Some of the discussion might get a little technical -can’t be helped when we are discussing hardware and software, but there’s a glossary of all the technical terms I mention in the document down at the bottom to help!

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Quick audience poll: pain points & questions in the chat please!

NOTE - we’re NOT going to cover backups today - that’s for next time. However, the discussions around storage will overlap what we cover next time around…