Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ummmmm.....well.....Aperture is becoming a useful program. It does some things very very nicely and other things, not so much. I don't get what you're saying about the difference between Windows on a laptop vs OS X on a laptop though. I know that Aperture makes intense use of the video card's memory for much of its image manipulation and few laptops have anything to really match a high-end desktop system in that regard. Laptops also have a lower I/O bandwidth (in general) than their larger desk-top brethren. This shouldn't surprise anyone since laptops have a much tighter energy and component budget than desktop systems do. Anyone making the change to Windows Vista will have serious doubts about your suggestion that Mr Bill thinks you can use any ol' laptop. If it's more than a year old: forget it. I freely admit that this information is only from reading reviews of Vista by people who have installed it and dealt with issues, performance being only one of them. The continued contest between Lightroom and Aperture is a Good Thing. I'm hoping the new/improved Aperture team fixes the software issues that slow it down on Intel hardware, esp laptops. Adam On 1/29/07, Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote: > On 1/29/07 6:34 PM, "Allen Graves" <allen.graves@charter.net> typed: > > > Anybody here like Adobe Lightroom enough to pay $299 for it? > > Introductory price $199. > > > > http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom/ > > > > Full price seems a little steep to me unless they have added a fair > > amount of function to the beta. > > > > Allen > > Sounds like a great thing but the obvious comparison question is how does > it > stack up to APPLE APERTURE? I'm sure that could be found all over but I > know > the people here. And I know some have used both. And both seem to be for > the > same things. No ones chiming in WHAT!?!!?! get Aperture instead so I assume > its not a big deal. And I'm working off laptops not mainframes. That would > be an APPLE drawback as I understand it. They build software to try to make > you get a bigger newer computer. Gates thinks you can use an old Laptop as > far as he cares. Didn't use to be like that. > When Word 4 came out you needed a new computer to run it. > Something like that. > > Mark Rabiner > New York, NY > 40?47'59.79"N > 73?57'32.37"W > > markrabiner.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >