Aperture on a Powerbook

[wheezy]

How does it run on a 10 * 7 ...all i can say is...not super well...like i said..."Aperture to Go" mostly for looking at closer details when im on the go with my photos.

as for the 20" iMac...it is the "lowest base configuration aperture recommends...but for the most part...its nothing i can complain about. There is no way i could have afforded a Powermac with Display (we can dream though) so for me its more then adequate, it gets the job done with NOT TOO much lag...there is no hiding it does show up in more intensive operations

As for how i got it running on a 12" Powerbook with 512 Ram...thats umm...
PM Me

Thanks for the review. If I were to buy the Powermac, I would just get the Dual Core 2.0 Ghz, but beef the Video Card up to the 7800 Model....The displays can come later. Edu Discount puts just the PowerMac at about $2300.... If only I were making money as a photographer, I could justify it more. I wish my Christmas Bonus was gonna be bigger....

 

[mbdamdg]

We installed Aperture on Friday on our Powermac at school, and it worked pretty well, but I was wishing for dual displays after about five minutes.

We tried it out on my iBook (14in, 1.42 GHz, 1.5 GB RAM, etc), and it worked just fine - no hacking or anything at all - quite surprising. I wouldn't call it blazing or anything, but it works well enough - and I'll take the performance hit if it means I can sort my sports pictures at home instead of running up to school on a saturday.

PS - It leaves Adobe Bridge way behind....

Paul

 

[eXan]

We installed Aperture on Friday on our Powermac at school, and it worked pretty well, but I was wishing for dual displays after about five minutes.

Yes, I think a second big (over 20 inch, prefferable 30 ) screen is really useful in Aperture. Use main display for all pallets and windows and the second display for viewing photos full-screen

Aperture REALLY loves a lot of RAM. I saw it use 800+ MB - and thats in my 2500 photo library!!

 

[daystartech]

Is Aperture faster on G4 than G5?

Has anyone done comparisons of Aperture on a MDD with a supported Video Card vs a G5? I've been browsing the forums, and it is appearing that Aperture may actually be faster on a G4 than a G5... hence, one reason Apple trimmed the specs.

I guess we'll need to gather the hardware and check it out.

 

[daystartech]

Hi,Have any of you guys tried running Aperture on a 1.33GHZ (or something similar) Powerbook? I know it will run, but is it worthwhile - rather, is it usable? I have 2Gs of ram, and 64M on my ATI 9700....let's see what this baby can do! I have a Nikon D200 coming in too (hopefully soon)....

I haven't tried it yet. Actually, I want to also compare it at 1.92 GHz as well (XLR8's upcoming PB upgrade). But, browsing the forums... it Appears that a "stuffed" PowerBook may be faster than the slower G5s?

 

[SyndicateX]

Hey, I have it installed on a 1.33Ghz 17" powerbook with 1 gig of ram and it actually runs very decent! All of the animations and transitions run smoothly and overall it doesnt bother me at all to use even though Im used to a powermac. However, I installed it on a 1.8Ghz 20" iMac w/ 512MB RAM at work with the 5200 graphics card and it was DOG SLOW! My powerbook seems to be 2-3 times faster at just maneuvering around the app although the G5 is still faster at exporting images, its a pain to use.

So overall, on my powerbook so far it has been a blast to use and it amazes me that my 2 year old PB works perfectly with it but a 9 month old G5 iMac doesnt.


Anyone looking into some of the hacks to get it running on unsupported hardware see

http://osx.tribe.net/thread/f1bff671-fbe8-47c2-8e23-7fb219b8bfb5

and

http://guides.macrumors.com/Aperture

 

[baxendall137]

G5ish stuff

It seems that for iBook users, the question of whether or not their computers are supported has been answered. Clearly, if you have enough ram and a compatible graphics card, they seem to work just fine - but my question is what about the G5's? I have a 1.6 ghz G5 - 5200 Radeaon card - 1200M RAMI installed Aperture (ahem, with uh, some creative writing) but when I try to start it up it says insufficient hardware. I thought about getting a better graphics card and trying again but it seems to me that people on this forum are talking about installing it on computers that are completely incompatible both with speed and video card - so I ask you - how do you do it? Will having the new graphics card make that error message go away even though my computer is techincally to "slow" for the specs? Hellllpp... (whimper)

 

[SyndicateX]

As I tried to say in my previous post, this is from one of the links I posted.

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Quick overview:

a) edit the Distribution.dist file to get past the installation
b) Install Xcode 2.2 (search google for it) from the Apple Dev Center
c) Run the OpenGL profiler with the NVIDIA Geforce 6800 driver select and use OpenGL profiler to launch Aperature.

(This part is to install Aperture on on a computer that does not meet the requirements from the DVD image.)
To install Aperature, you need to modify the Distribution.dist file in the Aperature.mpkg directory. The easiest way to do this is pop the DVD into the drive, run Disk Utility, create a read/write image of the DVD (.dmg) on your desktop. Then use Terminal (also under utilities) to enter the Packages directory on the new image (after clicking on it to mount it). It'll be in /Volumes/Aperature (make sure you eject the DVD first).

You'll want to find the part that says GeForce 5200, change this to 2500 or something else. Then you can install Aperature from the image you created.

(This part is to run Aperture on a mac that does not meet the graphics card requirements.)
Next grab a copy of Xcode 2.2. After you install it, there will be a Developer folder on your disk. Click on it, and under Graphics Utilities, you should find OpenGL Profiler. Load it up, set under Preferences the polling rates to something fairly high so OpenGL Profiler doesn't mess up performance. Make sure you turn off tracing etc. Then under Launch options, select a driver. On the Rev A iMac G5, it works fine with the GeForce 6800 driver, so does the Apple Software driver. Looks like Apple SPECIFICALLY is trying to prevent Aperature running on GeForce FX 5200 hardware, yet it runs fine.

Obviously not the best option, but it works, and its a lot better than having to buy a new iMac G5




Now, if you need to get past the ram requirement, this is from my second link...
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Note: You can also use Aperture if you don't have 1GB of RAM by modifying only a number in the file info.plist, found in Aperture.app. Locate:

<key>AELMinimumRAMSize</key>
<string>1000</string>
And change the content of the string (1000) to your amount of RAM you have in your system. Use at your own risk.

Hope that helps anyone that needs it. The first option WILL work to launch aperture on any graphics card although it definately does not run as smoothly as it would natively. If you have any questions let me know.