Aperture 1.1 Universal Update and $200 Price Drop [Update]

[Ja Di ksw]

I'm surprised that picture was posted with all the info on it. Blur man, blur!

I'd be more worried about your VRAM and CPU. Aperture seems to be demanding most of those.

Sorry, meant to post that I have an ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 (128 MB). Must have slipped my mind. It's a 1.5 GHz G4, but I already said that. Are you referring to something else?

 

[manu chao]

The apple store currently says 3-4 weeks for Aperture to ship. Does anyone know why this is?

Maybe if the update has been released today, they can only start next week pressing the CDs, packaging and distribution will take some time too. But four to six weeks seems a bit steep for that. Two weeks might have made sense.

 

[Multimedia]

A First For Apple - A Rarity For Any Business

I don't remember Apple ever announcing that they priced a product too high and are therefore refunding money to all who bought it at the initial too high price and lowering the price today.

Considering that the product is better than ever today, this is truly an amazing and unusual move not only by Apple but for any buniness to make. Bravo Apple not only for lowering the price but moreover for refunding to all who took the initial plunge the difference. Outstanding!

 

[JAT]

Well, if Apple is looking.....Add my camera to your list!!!

You get $zero until I see Sigma X3F in the RAW list. Lightroom already supported it in the very first beta, and it is on my short list of software to buy in the very near future. $149 would make Aperture a very nice option for this student, but absolutely useless until it is compatible.

 

[psycho bob]

Maybe if the update has been released today, they can only start next week pressing the CDs, packaging and distribution will take some time too. But four to six weeks seems a bit steep for that. Two weeks might have made sense.

As long as demand is not too heavy Apple usually manage to ship software sooner then stated, they certainly did with Motion. What annoys me is that the UK store still doesn't display the new 1.1 pricing correctly

 

[psycho bob]

Well, if Apple is looking.....Add my camera to your list!!!

You get $zero until I see Sigma X3F in the RAW list. Lightroom already supported it in the very first beta, and it is on my short list of software to buy in the very near future. $149 would make Aperture a very nice option for this student, but absolutely useless until it is compatible.

I would love to see Sigma support from Apple, there is no excuse for them not to. Sigma seem to be discussing the launch of a new camera by Septemeber so it isn't like Apple would be putting the work in for nothing.

 

[nihilisticmonk]

I'm running on a dual 2.5ghz powermac with an x800 and 3.5gb of ram, and aperture still appears a little slow.

I'm looking at raw files, and as a I scroll through projects they're still pixellated and I get "LOADING" at the top when I view an image and it takes a second or two for the image to become crisp!

Anyone else experience anything similar with aperture?

 

[manu chao]

I'm running on a dual 2.5ghz powermac with an x800 and 3.5gb of ram, and aperture still appears a little slow.

I'm looking at raw files, and as a I scroll through projects they're still pixellated and I get "LOADING" at the top when I view an image and it takes a second or two for the image to become crisp!

Anyone else experience anything similar with aperture?

One problem is certainly disk I/O speed, consider a RAID array, even with 3.5 GB of RAM, not all your images will fit into memory.

 

[tleveque]

Maybe if the update has been released today, they can only start next week pressing the CDs, packaging and distribution will take some time too. But four to six weeks seems a bit steep for that. Two weeks might have made sense.

I just ordered it on the Canadian Store:
ORDER

Part Number: MA438Z/A
Product Name: Aperture
Unit Price: $169.00
Quantity: 1
Net Price: $169.00
Estimated time to ship: 1-2 business days

SUBTOTAL: $169.00

This is not 6 weeks!!
$169 is the educationnal price in Canadian dollars.

Thierry

 

[rdbishop]

Aperture won't install on a Core Duo Mac Mini even though the new minis do support Core Image. Guess i'll have to use the hardware check workaround.

 

[mashinhead]

what about edu purchasers? I paid 249, now its 100 bux less, do i get that back too?

 

[Leondunkleyc]

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[rdbishop]

Aperture won't install on a Core Duo Mac Mini even though the new minis do support Core Image. Guess i'll have to use the hardware check workaround.

Ok, if you use the hardware check workaround to do the installation, then update to 1.01 and then 1.1 Aperture runs on the Core Duo Mini without any modifications to the Aperture application as was required for unsupported hardware. So I guess the new Mac Mini's are supported and this probably will be fixed with the 1.1 boxed version.

 

[all-in-my-head]

Uk Price Drop?

The UK price hasn't changed in the store. It's £349!!

But on the aperture page itself, it has the price at £219

Unfortunetly there is no way of buying at this price yet, hopefully the left hand will know what the right hand is doing soon and they'll fix the price.

 

[Mechcozmo]

So if you bought Aperature pre-Universal Binary, it is now a Universal Binary after the update?

Pretty cool!

 

[wtmcgee]

I just ordered it on the Canadian Store:
ORDER

Part Number: MA438Z/A
Product Name: Aperture
Unit Price: $169.00
Quantity: 1
Net Price: $169.00
Estimated time to ship: 1-2 business days

SUBTOTAL: $169.00

This is not 6 weeks!!
$169 is the educationnal price in Canadian dollars.

Thierry

Qty Ordered Items Part No. Est. Shipping Unit Price Ext. Price
1 Aperture - Academic MA439Z/A 3-4 weeks $149.00 $149.00
Subtotal: $149.00
Estimated Tax: $8.94
Shipping Charge: $0.00
Estimated Total: $157.94


Strange, eh?

 

[turtlebud]

For the e-coupons, can you use them in the educational online store or only the regular online store?

 

[Thomas S]

Oh my god - I uploaded the one that wasn't blocked out .

I feel like such a dumbass. Anyhow, thanks for removing it for me. That's what I get for messing up the file names .

The kicker? Anyone sending that serial number in isn't going to be getting any cash since it was a volume educational purchase and they're ineligible .

 

[elo]

This thread is ridiculous. Apple announced that it was giving $200 gift certificates to the early adopters at the very same time it posted the revised price for Aperture. All of those who complained did so with no basis in fact whatsoever.

Don't get me wrong: Had Apple not done this right, there would have been cause for complaint. But they did, and they did from the very beginning.

 

[esquared]

can't update

I d/l 1.1 just fine, but it doesn't see my copy of Aperture 1.0.1 on my HD! I have 3 exclamation points next to all 3 available HD's ( Aperture is installed on one of them ). How disappointing.

 

[Ja Di ksw]

Don't get me wrong: Had Apple not done this right, there would have been cause for complaint. But they did, and they did from the very beginning.

I disagree. As others have said, people obviously thought it was worth it when they bought it because they DID buy it. No one forced them to. Apple is under no obligation to keep their prices the same. They are under no obligation to let you know when a decrease in price is coming, or when an update is coming. No company is. When I bought my powermac a long time ago, I never looked into any rumor sites or release dates, and within a month or two, the first dual processor powermac came out. Two processors to my one! And if I remember right, they were at a slightly higher speed! For the same price! Was Apple obligated to let me trade in for a newer one, or to pay me the price difference between what I paid and what the same computer would cost after the update? Of course not. I thought my powermac was worth what I paid when I got it, and that didn't change when a new one came out.

 

[bigbossbmb]

This thread is ridiculous. Apple announced that it was giving $200 gift certificates to the early adopters at the very same time it posted the revised price for Aperture. All of those who complained did so with no basis in fact whatsoever.

Don't get me wrong: Had Apple not done this right, there would have been cause for complaint. But they did, and they did from the very beginning.

This thread was started last night as a page two BEFORE the announcement of 1.1....
The rumor only stated that 1.1 would be released today and have a new pricing of $299. It wasn't leaked that Apple was going to give e-coupons to the early adopters. So the people complaining did so with just cause and are probably pretty happy with Apple's decision.

 

[milo]

This thread was started last night as a page two BEFORE the announcement of 1.1....
The rumor only stated that 1.1 would be released today and have a new pricing of $299. It wasn't leaked that Apple was going to give e-coupons to the early adopters. So the people complaining did so with just cause and are probably pretty happy with Apple's decision.

No, the people complaining were whining about a situation they were ignorant of without knowing all the facts.

You do that, you come off looking like an ass. No sympathy from me. Sad that so many mac users are such crybabies that they start blubbering even before details are announced.

 

[esquared]

I d/l 1.1 just fine, but it doesn't see my copy of Aperture 1.0.1 on my HD! I have 3 exclamation points next to all 3 available HD's ( Aperture is installed on one of them ). How disappointing.

Well, I guess my previous version of 1.0.1 was the problem. Installed "new" 1.0.1, then did the 1.1, life is good again.

 

[tleveque]

Qty Ordered Items Part No. Est. Shipping Unit Price Ext. Price
1 Aperture - Academic MA439Z/A 3-4 weeks $149.00 $149.00
Subtotal: $149.00
Estimated Tax: $8.94
Shipping Charge: $0.00
Estimated Total: $157.94


Strange, eh?

If I go and check my order status on the web site it says now:
Estimated
Shipped By Apr 17, 2006

This is next monday....