I am not a happy iMac owner anymore

[iGary]

Aperture, if you havn't got it your not missing much. It has very poor RAW support, and from what I have heard it is very buggy.

Want to dish out, get Photoshop. You get Bridge which is far better than Aperture, and you also get Photoshop with it.

Bridge is a POS. I could sort through twice as many images in Aperture that Bridge.

Now when I have to edit the photos, that is an entirely different matter.

 

[janstett]

Yeah, with all the money and R&D Microsoft has put into Windows all these years, isn't it nice to fire up a brand new top-of-the-line PC and see those first couple lines of DOS load up underneath Windows? Microsoft is all about backwards compatibility...Hell, "Backwards" is practically Microsoft's middle name.

Hmm, the last Microsoft OS that had DOS underneath it was Windows ME, which was released in 1999. Seven years ago. When is the last time you fired up brand new top-of-the-line PC, and was Bill Clinton president?

Should I start making comparisons to OS9?

 

[maya]

Aperture is a pro app. An iMac isn't a pro machine. I understand your frustration, but if you plan on using pro apps, you should get a pro machine (i.e. a Power Mac). iMacs were made for iMovie and iDVD and iPhoto, not for Final Cut Studio Pro or DVD Studio Pro or Aperture.

Where do you get your information from?

Final Cut Pro will work with almost all Apple Hardware including the iMac G5.

DVD Studio Pro will work with the iMac G5 also, there are some processor speed that you have to meet due to encoding. That is expected.

LogicPro will also work with the iMac G5.

Soundtrack will also work with the iMac G5.

Motion will also work with the iMac G5.

The only reason Aperture will not work is due to its RAW processing on the fly. When they coded this application the Nvidia 9200 was not set to handle its tasks, considering the Nvidia 9200 is history in terms of GPU performance.

 

[EricNau]

Hmm, the last Microsoft OS that had DOS underneath it was Windows ME, which was released in 1999. Seven years ago. When is the last time you fired up brand new top-of-the-line PC, and was Bill Clinton president?

Should I start making comparisons to OS9?

Windows ME was released on Sept 14, 2000 which is a little over 5 years ago. So, the last time you fired up a top-of-the-line PC, was George W Bush president? (doesn't sound as good, does it?)

And I'll feel free to compare Mac OS X Cheetah to Windows ME, which were released about 6 months apart.

 

[xPismo]

...now, stop your bitching and use your damn imac. apple brought something to the table in no way does that take anything away from you...

Bingo.

I honestly had to re-read this post as I thought there was a joke hidden somewhere. How dare apple release software that is on the cutting edge.

I guess this "me too" post is just as silly really, but I feel better now.

 

[nitynate]

you can install aperture, right click on the installer click show package contents go to the resources and delete installationchecker then it'll install on anything.

Yeah, and it will be as slow as molasis on a cold winter morning.

 

[MacAficionado]

Not to mention this is a v1.0 release. I think they'll probable add support to other machines in the future.

 

[jrk07]

My revA iMac G5 can run the entire Final Cut Studio, but I knew when I got it that it would not be able to utilize all of the real-time transition and other great features of FCP 5 and Motion. I love my iMac, despite how loud it gets when I try and run resource heavy apps. I also wouldn't mind getting a pro system soon, and by soon I mean in about a year when the new Intel PowerMac (or whatever they will end up calling them) is in a later revision. So in conclusion, love your iMac for what it was built for, a consumer machine that really isn't too shabby as far as performance goes

 

[bookofjames]

Not quite. It makes sense. What would Apple or its consumers get out of merging the two lines, as you seem to think should/will happen.

You'll get a machine that is more expensive than a consumer needs/wants and a machine lacking the horsepower a professional would need.

I believe they call this segment the Pro-sumer.

Not as big a segment as the consumer or pro, but definitely seeing some growth with all the budding photo/video/audio/graphic enthusiasts.

Actually if you look at the product lines, you will see that the lower end Pro Macs actually fall into the prosumer category - e.g. the 12" Powerbook (when it came out).

 

[Mechcozmo]

I want to run Shake on my iBook.

Fracking Apple suxxors.

No no no! Sarcasm in the Internet needs to be much more in-your-face so that it is noticeable. A better way to say that would be:

i wanna run t3h 1337 haxxored SHAKE on my IBOOK.

frac|<ing 4PP7E SUKX0R3Z!!!111oneoneoneleventyone!!!

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