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Is Aperture 3 on a core duo mbp madness?
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Aperture 3 runs acceptably fast for me on most occasions. However I have to close all other programs. If I have another program running (like pixelmator or PSE8 for editing images) it sometimes makes the whole computer unresponsive. According to my iStat monitor it takes up almost all of my RAM - so it is possibly going to the hard drive all the time to swap memory.
I plan to upgrade to 8gb of ram to see if this makes a difference...
I also turned off face recognition in preferences - made a marginal difference at best, but worthwhile trying.
I just hope apple improves performance eventually with a software upgrade...
I plan to upgrade to 8gb of ram to see if this makes a difference...
I also turned off face recognition in preferences - made a marginal difference at best, but worthwhile trying.
I just hope apple improves performance eventually with a software upgrade...
Aperture 3 frequently beachballed for me on my i7 MBP w/ 4GB of RAM, whereas it rarely beachballs for me on my MBA w/ 4GB of RAM.
I guess the way I use Aperture, the speed of the disk is what was causing the performance bottleneck, not the CPU.
I guess the way I use Aperture, the speed of the disk is what was causing the performance bottleneck, not the CPU.
From what I've read, (barefeats benchmarking) the CPU is the bottleneck on exporting images. For everything else, I can believe the HD and RAM are the bottlenecks.
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i'm also using A3 on an imac (2007) 20" 2.4ghz 4gb ram and 256mb ati radeon hd2600 with the library (229.59gb) on a 1.5tb firewire 800 external hard drive.
my raws are from a canon t1i and one image loads within 5 seconds. hope that helps.
i'm also using A3 on an imac (2007) 20" 2.4ghz 4gb ram and 256mb ati radeon hd2600 with the library (229.59gb) on a 1.5tb firewire 800 external hard drive.
my raws are from a canon t1i and one image loads within 5 seconds. hope that helps.
Is this about the same length of time it takes for adjustments to be rendered as well?
But it's not surprising: it's slow since the library is hosted on an external harddrive which is limited by the interface to at most half of the throughput of the drive. I'd put the library on the internal drive for sure.
Is there a way to get eSATA connectivity on the iMac? I haven't heard of it. I know you can jury rig the Mac mini to have an eSATA port, but that's about it.
I remember reading about a company which can add such a port to an iMac. But to go out of your way to do that is silly.
I wasn't suggesting it to the user with the slowness, I just meant in general terms if eSata was a suitable method for working with images off an external drive.
I wasn't suggesting it to the user with the slowness, I just meant in general terms if eSata was a suitable method for working with images off an external drive.
Not sure about out of the US because of shipping but FWIW OWC, www.macsales.com will add esata to an iMac. Not sure if it's only on the new units but check out their site and see what comes up.
While I'd like to get A3 I'm not sure since A2 works for me but there are some really nice features in A3. Speed trade off if it happens as a hit or not thing keeps me waiting…
My dad has the same Imac with a Canon 7D a a library (400+GB) on a 1.5 TB external HD and its super fast still
I didn't know that, learnt something today, thanks!
Aperture 3 is definitely worth it, it feels quite a bit speedier than Aperture 2.
Maybe it's just because I run a Mac Pro and keep a fairly clean hard drive and whatnot, but working with Aperture for me is a breeze - hardly takes a second to do most things. 5000ish photo library.
Are you serious?the only back up is the occasional flickr upload
That's misery waiting to happen.
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Buy a back up drive asap dude. Running Aperture libraries without a backup is madness!
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