O’Reilly’s Derrick Story has posted an excellent review of Aperture on a PowerBook:
I finally had a chance to spend a whole day with Apple’s new professional photo software, Aperture. As I had mentioned in an earlier post, I’m using a 17″ PowerBook for all of my photo work. This is the first in a series of posts describing my experiences with Aperture on a laptop.
Fortunately, my laptop is only about a year old. It’s a 1.5 GHz PowerPC G4 with 1.5 GB DDR SDRAM and a 80 GB hard drive. I have the ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 graphics card with 64 MB VRAM. I have Mac OS X 10.4.3 loaded. And finally, I’m using two LaCie FireWire external drives for “vault” backups.
To be honest, I was nervous about Aperture’s performance on this computer. The recommended system, a Dual 2GHz Power Mac G5 with a ATI Radeon 9800 XT or 9800 Pro, blows the doors off my 17″ laptop. But after a day’s worth of work, everything seems just fine.
O’Reilly’s Derrick Story has posted an excellent review of Aperture on a PowerBook:
I finally had a chance to spend a whole day with Apple’s new professional photo software, Aperture. As I had mentioned in an earlier post, I’m using a 17″ PowerBook for all of my photo work. This is the first in a series of posts describing my experiences with Aperture on a laptop.
Fortunately, my laptop is only about a year old. It’s a 1.5 GHz PowerPC G4 with 1.5 GB DDR SDRAM and a 80 GB hard drive. I have the ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 graphics card with 64 MB VRAM. I have Mac OS X 10.4.3 loaded. And finally, I’m using two LaCie FireWire external drives for “vault” backups.
To be honest, I was nervous about Aperture’s performance on this computer. The recommended system, a Dual 2GHz Power Mac G5 with a ATI Radeon 9800 XT or 9800 Pro, blows the doors off my 17″ laptop. But after a day’s worth of work, everything seems just fine.
