What would be the best way to increase the speed of some of my programs?  I have a Macbook Pro and especially iPhoto runs slow.  The iPhoto library is about 50 gigs and it takes forever to load up.  I am accessing the iPhoto library from unRAID.  I connect to the server with wired and wireless connections.  Would adding a faster CPU to the server help or is more the the Macbook Pro end?

What would be the best way to increase the speed of some of my programs?  I have a Macbook Pro and especially iPhoto runs slow.  The iPhoto library is about 50 gigs and it takes forever to load up.  I am accessing the iPhoto library from unRAID.  I connect to the server with wired and wireless connections.  Would adding a faster CPU to the server help or is more the the Macbook Pro end?

 

It will not help.  Being wired while your running iPhoto is your best bet.  I have a 60ish GB iTunes library and it is a dog to first load up.  You are going to be limited by the speed of your connection (wireless being slower than wired).

What would be the best way to increase the speed of some of my programs?  I have a Macbook Pro and especially iPhoto runs slow.  The iPhoto library is about 50 gigs and it takes forever to load up.  I am accessing the iPhoto library from unRAID.  I connect to the server with wired and wireless connections.  Would adding a faster CPU to the server help or is more the the Macbook Pro end?

Define "forever"

 

If you had a really fast wired network connection and you could read at 100 MB/s, it would still take 500 seconds to read 50 gigs. (over 8 minutes)  No CPU change would help...  It would be worse over a wireless network.  They can often connect at 36Mb/s or 24Mb/s  Forever is getting longer.... now we can be talking hours.

I do connect mostly over wireless since it is a laptop so I guess my best bet is to plug in the network cable when I use iPhoto.

I have a 10/100 router between my mediapc and unRAID server and just to load a picture (2.5MB) takes 1-2 secs. I am assuming its the network is the bottleneck as loading the same photo locally is  1 - < 1sec. When I change the router to a GB switch I'll let you guys know.