I have a 27 inch iMac. new this year. 10.9.4, 8GB memory, with 959.91 storage free. I want to move my photos from a back-up to this computer. I was planning on going to Aperture as it holds so many more photos than iPhoto. I understand that Mac is dropping Aperture. Should I buy it? and will it be easy to convert to what ever Mac comes out with at a later date? Thanks, Mary
If you purchase Aperture now, you will be able to migrate your existing Aperture libraries to Photos for OS X. But keep in mind, Photos comes with OS X Yosemite will will be available some time this fall which is not that far off. Considering Aperture is $79.99, save your $$ and wait for Photos in OS X Yosemite.
http://fortune.com/2014/06/27/apple-drops-aperture/
If you purchase Aperture now, you will be able to migrate your existing Aperture libraries to Photos for OS X. But keep in mind, Photos comes with OS X Yosemite will will be available some time this fall which is not that far off. Considering Aperture is $79.99, save your $$ and wait for Photos in OS X Yosemite.
http://fortune.com/2014/06/27/apple-drops-aperture/
The current Aperture and iPhoto libraries are identical. They both can hold the same number of photos. That would not be a reason to switch to Aperture.
About how many is that? I have thousands from my back up for my old mac (plus 7 or so i movies). And I would like to move all my photos from my old pc to my new mac also And start editing them. Will the new Photos for OSX work on my operating system ,( Maverick i think) ? Will they actually be on my hard drive?
iPhoto and Aperture are good for up to 1,000,000 items in any one library.
The new app - when it arrives next year - will require the OS current then, which should be Yosemite, or 10.10
I have iPhoto. Should I buy Aperture?
