iPhoto 5.0.4 Released

[alex_ant]

The slowest computer Apple sell's has 1.25Ghz (1.2Ghz since last October) and anybody who runs OS X with less than 1GB is a terrible cheapskate (or on a really tigtht budget), so it is not a lot of computer. If you want your Mac to last 3+ years and still run most new programs fine, you have the most high-end version, it has always been like this, I am sorry.

And to 'just run a photo album' which has to handle hundreds of MB while you scroll (thousands of photos at an uncompressed size, and yes to display them they have to be decompressed, of 100 to 200kB) you unfortunately need some processing power, memory and/or a fast harddrive.

My Mac cost $2300 3 1/2 years ago and it's not expandable beyond 1GB. It has 768MB in it now. Even if it had 1GB it would still be at a huge deficiency in iPhoto. Yet iView (and others) still run perfectly acceptably on it with 10 times as many photos as I have in iPhoto (coming up on 10,000). Hell, they run just fine with 100,000 photos and half the RAM! The truth of the matter is that iPhoto is a poorly implemented resource hog.

 

[Abstract]

Yeah, it's embarrassingly slow. Even Windows' Picture Viewer app shows images instantly. If I click on the right arrow in iPhoto to see the next photo, sometimes I get a spinning beachball.

If my PC with WinXP and AMD Duron 650MHz, 256 MB of RAM, and a GeForce 4 with 64MB of RAM can show my images instantly, I think my 1GHz G4 Powerbook with 1.25GB of RAM should be much much better. iPhoto sucks. It doesn't suck if you don't compare it to the other options out there, but I guess that's like saying ignorance is bliss.

 

[xxxray]

Can't install iphoto 5.04 either

Did you ever figure out how to update to 5.0.4? I do have 5.0.3 in my applications folder, so I have no idea why it won't update.

 

[Mustafa]

Did you ever figure out how to update to 5.0.4? I do have 5.0.3 in my applications folder, so I have no idea why it won't update.

I'm not sure if you're referring to my earlier post, but yes, I have managed to update both iPhoto and GarageBand.

I had both applications in the wrong folder. I don't know how it happened, but I had them in my User folder instead of the Applications folder. As soon as I moved them back, I was able to run a Software Update and instal the new versions.

 

[xxxray]

Re: iPhoto update 5.0.4

My files are where they should be. Thanks for your reply.