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DrD

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I am wondering about running aperture 3 on large external 2560 x 1440 screen, connected to my 2011 macbook pro. Not so much a question of IF it will work, just how well it will run.

The macbook pro specs are:
Intel HD 3000
Core I5 2.3 ghz
4 gb ram

I don't plan to run much, if anything, else in the background. It'd just be a way of taking my photo library with me on the go, while also letting me do some nice pixel peeping and professional editing at home on a big screen.
 

flynz4

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I am wondering about running aperture 3 on large external 2560 x 1440 screen, connected to my 2011 macbook pro. Not so much a question of IF it will work, just how well it will run.

The macbook pro specs are:
Intel HD 3000
Core I5 2.3 ghz
4 gb ram

I don't plan to run much, if anything, else in the background. It'd just be a way of taking my photo library with me on the go, while also letting me do some nice pixel peeping and professional editing at home on a big screen.

I have a Thunderbolt display that I have attached to my 2012 MBA and it was fine for Aperture. I often bring the ATD with me when I am working remote at my beach condo.

At home, the ATD is attached to my 27" iMac... and then I run Aperture in dual display mode. I typically have the secondary display set up to display a full screen view of the selected photo... but there are lots of options.

/Jim
 

DrD

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Aug 9, 2007
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Great answer. Thanks, my MBP should be speced pretty similar to your MBA, so that more or less answers that.
 

flynz4

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You do have an SSD correct? I find Aperture performance is quite sensitive to fast I/O. The SSD has about ~100X the IOPS of a HDD... and you can feel it in an application such as Aperture.

/Jim
 

DrD

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Aug 9, 2007
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You do have an SSD correct? I find Aperture performance is quite sensitive to fast I/O. The SSD has about ~100X the IOPS of a HDD... and you can feel it in an application such as Aperture.

/Jim

Not yet... but oddly enough I was planning on getting one along with the monitor at the same time. Glad to know it will help considerably.
 
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