Finally... now the adobe shills can shut up about Aperture being dead-ended.
I have been holding off Snow Leopard until Aperture was updated, and now have an excuse to upgrade my workstation as well.
While I have no need for faces/places, Aperture has been for a few years my major professional imaging tool of choice. Running at 64 bit is good news too, has Adobe bothered to do this for the mac yet? (trick question, of COURSE they have not). Adobe has turned their backs on the community they built their business on, so it is far easier to turn our backs on them as well. Just like the plodding upgrade for Intel, they are doing the same for 64bit. See their statement explaining why on PCs get 64bit...
michael
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"Photoshop CS4 for Microsoft® Windows Vista® runs 64-bit native.
In early testing of 64-bit support in Photoshop for Windows®, overall performance gains ranged from 8% to 12%. Those who work with extremely large files may realize noticeably greater gains in performance, in some cases as dramatic as ten times the previous speed.
The Mac OS 64-bit version is planned for a future release as a result of a change to Apple's platform strategy, which now requires a migration from Apple's Carbon technology to its Cocoa technology in order for an application to run 64-bit native. Before 64-bit support can be added on Mac OS, significant parts of Photoshop and its plug-ins must first be ported from Carbon to Cocoa. The Photoshop team began working on porting Photoshop to Cocoa as soon as Apple announced 64-bit support in Carbon was no longer part of its plans." (
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/photoshop/faq/)