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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1631018">Five years is about the typical replacement time for a Mac, and you seem to be discovering why.A MacBook was never a strong choice for trying to run Lightroom (any version). Lightroom is a professional-level program, which general requires pro- or prosumer-level equipment. The MacBook is a &quot;consumer&quot; or &quot;student&quot; class device, with limited graphics capability, limited RAM expandability and usually a slower processor than the next level up, the MacBook Pro.If you can upgrade the RAM past the usual 2-4GB most MacBooks are limited to, and can thus upgrade to Yosemite and run it smoothly, then you can run the current version of Lightroom on that machine.But in all honesty, at five years old it may not be worth the price of the upgrading you'll want to do to get the best experience. I'd suggest selling it and moving up to something newer (I'm running it beautifully on a mid-2012 MacBook Pro with 16GB of RAM) -- indeed I got rid of my 2009 MBP for precisely this reason, it lacked a sufficient graphic card and RAM expandability to accommodate the latest software I wanted to use).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1631018"] Five years is about the typical replacement time for a Mac, and you seem to be discovering why. A MacBook was never a strong choice for trying to run Lightroom (any version). Lightroom is a professional-level program, which general requires pro- or prosumer-level equipment. The MacBook is a "consumer" or "student" class device, with limited graphics capability, limited RAM expandability and usually a slower processor than the next level up, the MacBook Pro. If you can upgrade the RAM past the usual 2-4GB most MacBooks are limited to, and can thus upgrade to Yosemite and run it smoothly, then you can run the current version of Lightroom on that machine. But in all honesty, at five years old it may not be worth the price of the upgrading you'll want to do to get the best experience. I'd suggest selling it and moving up to something newer (I'm running it beautifully on a mid-2012 MacBook Pro with 16GB of RAM) -- indeed I got rid of my 2009 MBP for precisely this reason, it lacked a sufficient graphic card and RAM expandability to accommodate the latest software I wanted to use). [/QUOTE]

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