I've only got to test it a little bit but from my tests it seems like apple is on the right track and in the future can have a very solid amazing product
What's impressive is that ars took on Apple's interface design. An "8 point party" on a 22" does not sound fun. Plus, 4.5 GB of RAM and it's only PPC compatible right now. This does not bode well.If I had to guess, I'd say Jobs is trying to get his foot (and only his foot) in the photo door. Good thing that this is not MEANT to be a Photoshop competitor. If Apple's not careful, Adobe might nix a MacIntel compatible version of Photoshop, like they axed Premiere when Apple launched Final Cut. Apple's going to have to make sure it stays worth Adobe's investment to make a Mac compatible version. Putting out a competitor does not advance that purpose.
I've seen a lot of people mention that it is v1.0 and to cut it some slack, both here and in other places. When you charge $500 1.0 does not cut it as an excuse.
"Of course, you can fix it on Windows..."Not to be nitpicky, but you can do this on Mac OSX as well. Check out the Universal Access panel in the System Prefs...but I digress.Anyway, I've played around a little with this app and while I understand some of the points made by the reviewer, I have to side with those that point out that the point of this app is to streamline workflow, not to heavy-duty image manipulation. Even the reviewer comes close to suggesting this when he talks about the possibility that Aperture doesn't have some of the features you would expect on purpose. Maybe because that is not what the app was meant to be used for?
"can we say hardcoded marketing ripoff?"Did you read the article? The reviewer was having performance issues on a dual 2 Ghz G5 with 4.5GB of ram... Some things might work fine on a mac mini, but there's no way the whole program will perform well.As for the font size issue... I can read all of that text perfectly on my 12" iBook, and my resolution (DPI) is higher than his, and if the font smoothing was optimized for LCD I'd be able to read it even easier. And my iBook's display isn't very good by Apple's standards (it's better than most PC LCD's, but no-where near as good as the ones apple sells).So either he's lying about having good eyes or his display is s**t. Either way it's enough to make me question the rest of the article.
nieton21Dec 5, 2005
I've only got to test it a little bit but from my tests it seems like apple is on the right track and in the future can have a very solid amazing product
mcbesqDec 5, 2005
What's impressive is that ars took on Apple's interface design. An "8 point party" on a 22" does not sound fun. Plus, 4.5 GB of RAM and it's only PPC compatible right now. This does not bode well.If I had to guess, I'd say Jobs is trying to get his foot (and only his foot) in the photo door. Good thing that this is not MEANT to be a Photoshop competitor. If Apple's not careful, Adobe might nix a MacIntel compatible version of Photoshop, like they axed Premiere when Apple launched Final Cut. Apple's going to have to make sure it stays worth Adobe's investment to make a Mac compatible version. Putting out a competitor does not advance that purpose.
ibisDec 5, 2005
I've seen a lot of people mention that it is v1.0 and to cut it some slack, both here and in other places. When you charge $500 1.0 does not cut it as an excuse.
blueice03Dec 5, 2005
"Of course, you can fix it on Windows..."Not to be nitpicky, but you can do this on Mac OSX as well. Check out the Universal Access panel in the System Prefs...but I digress.Anyway, I've played around a little with this app and while I understand some of the points made by the reviewer, I have to side with those that point out that the point of this app is to streamline workflow, not to heavy-duty image manipulation. Even the reviewer comes close to suggesting this when he talks about the possibility that Aperture doesn't have some of the features you would expect on purpose. Maybe because that is not what the app was meant to be used for?
npachecoDec 6, 2005
with the CPU Check hack, here's Aperture running on the mac mini w/ 1GB RAM!<a class="user" href="http://synchronizedesigns.us/aperture.mov">http://synchronizedesigns.us/aperture.mov</a>runs smooth on large raw images!can we say hardcoded marketing ripoff?
abhibeckertDec 6, 2005
"can we say hardcoded marketing ripoff?"Did you read the article? The reviewer was having performance issues on a dual 2 Ghz G5 with 4.5GB of ram... Some things might work fine on a mac mini, but there's no way the whole program will perform well.As for the font size issue... I can read all of that text perfectly on my 12" iBook, and my resolution (DPI) is higher than his, and if the font smoothing was optimized for LCD I'd be able to read it even easier. And my iBook's display isn't very good by Apple's standards (it's better than most PC LCD's, but no-where near as good as the ones apple sells).So either he's lying about having good eyes or his display is s**t. Either way it's enough to make me question the rest of the article.
attropheedDec 6, 2005
why does apple bother?
baxkdall136Dec 7, 2005
npacheco mentioned that there is a CPU hack - can you point out where to find that hack or give any info about it? thx