Aperture is very slow with Snow Leopard

My older Aperture will not load with new Snow Leapord is there an update!!! Come on guys this was a very expensive software!!!!

I've found the 10.6.2 update to be better than 10.6.1 w.r.t. Aperture performance. Though I admit I've had a couple moments of frustration with Aperture performance on Snow Leopard. Performance on my 2007 Mac Pro with NVIDIA 8800 GT has not been affected much, though on my 2009 17" MacBook Pro with 8 GB of RAM and the 9600 GT (running 64-bit kernel) it did suffer quite a bit.

I don't know enough about the underlying frameworks of the OS to know how simple it is to solve. I do share your desire to see a solution in some way sooner rather than later.

In terms of Snow Leopard overall, I have found performance to be better and more stable in general than it was with Leopard (which was quite good). However if I were using Aperture all day, every day, then a noticeable performance hit in my core application would certainly seem like a big performance hit to the OS overall.

"However if I were using Aperture all day, every day, then a noticeable performance hit in my core application would certainly seem like a big performance hit to the OS overall. "

Very well said, and, I believe, the reason for the disappointment with the new OS, from some Aperture users myself included.

I'm guessing Aperture will get an update sometime, but I got tired of waiting and installed the Lightroom 3 beta. I'm shocked how much faster thumbnails, and previews load. I have only moved one Aperture project over to Lightroom, so we'll see if it slows down once more of the projects are moved over. But I don't think I've ever seen Aperture run as fast as Lightroom 3 is.

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom3/

A few people have noted the opposite - LR3 beta's speed to decode the raw image is 2-3x slower than aperture on my mac pro.

Wierd, I just exported the masters of an Aperture project, and added them to Lightroom 3 beta. The thumbnails loaded in a blur, and the preview was nearly instant when clicking through the thumbnails. I'm exporting all of my Aperture projects right now with IPTC. That's 15GB (1800+) masters, we'll see how Lightroom handles a larger load. I'll post results when I have more info. I shoot a Canon 30D, I wonder if performance differs based on the master fileformat?

Moved all 15GB of RAW images to Lightroom 3 beta, it's still blazing fast.

With the number of users reporting slower performance with Aperture since 10.6 you'd think it would've been resolved by 10.6.2 with an update. I'm sure it'll come sometime soonish, but even so I don't remember Aperture being as fast on 10.5 compared to what I'm seeing with LR3beta.

I wonder how much of this is hardware configuration related? Aperture really likes to use the GPU and I don't think Lightroom does. Maybe a machine with 8 cores runs faster with Lightroom and one with "only" two cores, but with a strong GPU, runs Aperture faster?

Bob

Lightroom 3 beta is fast on our new MBP, Mac Pro, and the old intel core duo MBP, Aperture is slow on all three as well. The Mac Pro has the Radeon 4870, the others have the default install order graphics cards.

Has anyone managed to resolve these slow issues on Aperture? There's been no discussion on this issue for ages and I am still running with a frustratingly slow Aperture experience.

Surely Apple must know of this issue by now, there's enough of us to show the problem is real and exists...

Anyone? Is Apple listening?

I'm sure someone at Apple has heard of the issue. It's rare that anyone responds in the forums.

I would recommend you use Aperture's "Submit Feedback" mechanism to ensure they do see it, with specifics on your setup (Aperture version, and I assume 10.6.2) and as much detail on what's slow as possible.

It had been nice to see Apple showing a little "Aperture prioity" so we can get this program opgraded to run 64bit.....that´s one of my new year wishes 🙂

Sorry, i mean it WOULD BE nice....... 🙂

I bought a fully specc'd-up MacBook Pro 15" for my son for Christmas with Aperture pre-installed. He is starting a photography course next term; he tried uploading from his new Nikon yesterday and after 30mins waiting for the first image to load into the software he gave up. I've Googled this and it seems that we all may have sim probs with this software. If this is terminal, can anyone rec an alternative software that is a good as Aperture is claimed to be? He already has CS4. Cheers.

Which Nikon camera does he have? Is it supported by OS X? Very new cameras take a while to have their RAW images supported by OS X? But you can convert them to DNG files, using the free Adobe DNG convertor and use them that way until they are supported. On the other hand, just locking up while importing is not a general issue with Aperture. Even with the sluggishness under Snow Leopard, it should still import images just fine. REALLY important to get the Apple Training book for Aperture and do the exercises in the first 7 chapters. Just flailing around blindly is not a good strategy, and if you don't understand how Aperture works, especially the import and organize functions, you can get really off track.

On the other hand, I really wish Apple would release a bug fix for Aperture right now. This slowness is unacceptable and even if they release Aperture (X) 3.0, they should still fix Aperture 2.1.4. It is slow beyond belief. I have had to revert to 10.5.8 on a separate drive in order to use Aperture.