Hello all, need help figuring out the best computer solution to increase the speed of aperture:
Right now I shoot raw on a canon xsi and will go through 8gb of photos on a typical bird shoot. Currently I'm filling up a 1TB external USB drive (I have a macbook aluminum 2.4ghz with 4gb ram now). When I get home to edit them and choose my selects the amount of time it takes to load each picture is not long per se, but when sorting through hundreds of pics is too much to handle and is getting to the point where I need to upgrade.
I think I will need to upgrade to a mac pro or a macbook pro 17", here are my questions:
-How many cores will aperture take advantage of?
-How much RAM can aperture use well? Is there a limit?
-what is the best hard drive setup given that I expect I will need at least 2tb of space and want backup as well
-will the gpu of the mac pro significantly change the speed of aperture loading photos compared with the macbook proo
Right now I shoot raw on a canon xsi and will go through 8gb of photos on a typical bird shoot. Currently I'm filling up a 1TB external USB drive (I have a macbook aluminum 2.4ghz with 4gb ram now). When I get home to edit them and choose my selects the amount of time it takes to load each picture is not long per se, but when sorting through hundreds of pics is too much to handle and is getting to the point where I need to upgrade.
I think I will need to upgrade to a mac pro or a macbook pro 17", here are my questions:
-How many cores will aperture take advantage of?
-How much RAM can aperture use well? Is there a limit?
-what is the best hard drive setup given that I expect I will need at least 2tb of space and want backup as well
-will the gpu of the mac pro significantly change the speed of aperture loading photos compared with the macbook proo