Aperture, Macbook, and the fan that ran...

I get more fan action when I am running Aperture also, and I am maxed out with RAM. I understand the MB is a little underpowered for Aperture. Not sure if there is anything we can do other than get a macbook pro 🙂

Scott

The MacBook Pro is a little underpowered for Aperture. Come to think of it my MacPro may not be quite up to snuff either!

So what is the point of producing an application that can't be run at full steam on 90% of the machines produced by Apple??

Rob

Any photo or video programs place high demands on a computer, which is why someone doing high end graphics needs a real high-powered machine. I know that the MB Pro will do a lot better than my macbook because the memory isn't shared.

Scott

So what is the point of producing an application that
can't be run at full steam on 90% of the machines
produced by Apple??

Rob

Any photo or video programs place high demands on a
computer, which is why someone doing high end
graphics needs a real high-powered machine.

I agree but surely the MBP is a high-powered machine by anybody's standards. PS CS3 runs like a dream on it. The point is that Aperture will only run well on machines that are well outside the spec of most purchasers of the app. This fact should be made clear by Apple when they market it.

iMac 20" MBP 17" 2.17 Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Does Aperture run poorly on MBP? I have no idea, having a lowly MB 🙂

Scott

Any photo or video programs place high demands on

a

computer, which is why someone doing high end
graphics needs a real high-powered machine.

I agree but surely the MBP is a high-powered machine
by anybody's standards. PS CS3 runs like a dream on
it. The point is that Aperture will only run well on
machines that are well outside the spec of most
purchasers of the app. This fact should be made clear
by Apple when they market it.

iMac 20" MBP 17" 2.17 Ghz Mac
OS X (10.4.8)

i have a MBP 17"
* 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
* 1680 x 1050 pixels
* 2GB memory
* 160GB hard drive1
* 8x double-layer SuperDrive
* ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 graphics with 256MB SDRAM
it seems to work fine for me. My opinion, it seems faster then my Dual 2ghz G5.
The only problem i had with it was installing aperture. It will always crash all of my other application. After some help from a lot of people in this forum I fix it. I seems like I do most of my work on the MBP. I would say get a MBP. I love it more than i love my wife. lol

The MacBook Pro is a little underpowered for
Aperture. Come to think of it my MacPro may not be
quite up to snuff either!

Yours maybe, but my MBP is fine. I have no speed issues whatsoever running Aperture on a MacBook Pro. I'm a working photographer and my shoots are rarely less than 3,000 images. i have no problems at all.

Aperture can open a whole stackful of 12 images in half a second while running fullscreen; and I don't mean open the thumbnails in the filmstrip. I mean 'open' the images in compare mode.

The MBP is also extremely quiet even with the fan running.

The MacBook Pro is a little underpowered for Aperture. Come to think of it my MacPro may not be quite up to snuff either!

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More specifically;

I have two new Macs, both of which were bought primarily to run Aperture:
- MBP 15" CoreDuo 2.16Ghz/2GB/100GB - 7200rpm/x1600
- MacPro 2.66Ghz/4GB/1x250GB 2x500GB/x1900

I was trying recently to edit a project with about 5000 D2x NEF files. Many of these were in stacks of up to 20 images. I wanted to use stack mode to find the best images. It was so slow that I finally unstacked all the images and did a straight edit w/o stacks.

Even on my MP I sometimes get a bottleneck that ties Aperture up for more than 5-minutes. If I try to 'select all' in a project with 5000 NEF files it takes Aperture several minutes to make the selection. That's outrageous for any application on top of the line current hardware.

My point: depending on how your run Aperture and what features you use it can be anywhere from quick to quagmire. However, a user with high spec hardware shouldn't have to tip-toe around certain features to keep the machine from going into a stall. Aperture still has some serious problems with its code that need to be worked out pretty soon if it's to get the support that Apple is hoping for.

In the early ninties I worked for NeXT and did product demonstrations on all the available applications we had (the very early OS X prototype). I learned how to finess those apps when doing a demonstration so that I avoided certain actions that I knew would stall the computer. Working with Aperture reminds me of those early NeXT-step applications.

That isn't what I expected from Apple after buying into Aperture v1 for $499 and buying two new Intel machines in 8 months. Right now Aperture is running just fast enough to prevent me from migrating back to other workflows. I am hopping that by summer things will be much better.

How much faster would a MacPro 2.66 be than a Macbook Pro (2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 2GB RAM) ?