iPhoto going to have to go. Does Aperture make a good library application

[wlaidlaw]

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Hi Wilson,

 

From the App Store, Aperture 3, Requirements, Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later

I guess that is your answer. Isn't the latest version for the G5 10.5....?

You have to check.

 

Best, K-H.

 

Yes correct. The Dual G5 runs 10.5.8, as Snow Leopard is Intel only. However Phase One said that Capture One V5, would not run on a Power PC machine but it does perfectly well. I have not tried V6 because I think that is Intel only and not a universal app. Given that Aperture 3 came out while a lot of machines were still running Leopard, I hoped it might have been a universal app, if set to run in 32 bit but I am guessing maybe not.

 

Wilson

[swamiji]

I think you may need to have your Mac in top class condition. All sprung clean with Onyx or SL Cache Cleaner, caches kept small, few icons on desktop, permissions regularly repaired and disk defragged. Check in Application Monitor for memory hogs and turn them off. I am running it on an early 2007 20" iMac 2.16 GHz core 2 Duo machine with only 3 GB of RAM (the max this machine will address). I have 21,000 images in 254 events and it seems to be running just fine. Maybe it is because I am running it in referenced rather than imported memory mode.The only change from standard on that machine is that it has a 7200 RPM 1TB hard drive installed. I keep hoping that Seagate will bring out the hybrid drives in 3 1/2", as I would then put a 1.5 TB hybrid drive in, having seen how much the 500GB one has speeded up my 13" MacBook Pro.

 

Wilson

 

Actually it's in pretty good shape, I run the housekeeping utilities from time to time, etc. It's really a memory issue. Some processes just take a lot of memory. So much so the the keyboard stops responding, mouse still works. I have the entire Nik suite, and that seems to add to the problem. After I make adjustments and return to aperture or when I make adjustments to a clone within aperture, when I have a very large library open is the worst. If my library is small I have few issues. My libraries are aperture maintained, ie：images are kept in the aperture library. I have about 2 TB of active images and another 2 TB of inactive.

[wlaidlaw]

Typical - I buy Aperture and Apple finally today get round to correcting the export of TIFF for editing as a JPEG bug on iPhoto with the release of the 9.1.5 update. However I see the advantages in Aperture as it is much easier to get back to the original unmodified TIFF, rather than having to unpack the iPhoto library.

 

Wilson