From what I have gathered, Aperture is pretty graphics hungry. So I was considering Aperture, but I dont want to beat up a already freezing imac. So can my comp handle it?
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Can my imac handle Aputure?
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I have four gigs of RAM on my Mac Pro, and even that isn't enough to run Aperture smoothly, in my experience. Sure, Aperture works fine, but when I export a large amount of photos from Aperture, I basically can't do anything else with the computer at all. It runs slow as molasses and that awful beachball starts turning for minutes upon minutes.
I'm slapping in four more RAM gigs as soon as I can afford it.
I'm slapping in four more RAM gigs as soon as I can afford it.
It runs just fine on a Mini, so I'm sure you'll be ok with an iMac, provided it's not a G3 or G4.
Al Mac with 3gb of RAM, you should be fine. Also, have you considered Lightroom?
Just download the trial version and try it yourself. It runs smoothly on my 24-inch iMac with 2gb.
Well, not sure if you are aware or not, but this is a forum for asking questions. I have talked to people who are running Aperture on there MBP, and are having slight slow down issues. With me being new to owning my own mac, I figured asking a site full of people with some decent experience with this OS, I would probably find a accurate answer. Really, I feel, why do people waste time making post bitching about other people makes posts. But Hey, I just did it.... Oh well. Thanks for the insight everyone else. I will probably DL the trial of Aperture soon.
Then that's a problem with their hardware not Aperture, and with a TAD use of the search function we would eliminate this nonsense..