Anyone using Apple's Aperture to manage photos?

[nomore]

I've got Aperture 1.1.2 running on a PowerMac Dual 2GHz G5 and a 17" MacBook Pro (2.18GHz) both with 2GB RAM.

Aperture really slows down some times to the point where I get the spinning beach ball of death for 30 seconds or more.

On the MacBook, I only have about 150 photos (Canon RAW) and it's really getting annoying.

Has anyone got any tips to speed it up? I might have to try out Adobe Lightroom instead.

 

[nomore]

Yeah. My PowerMac has a 9600. The MacBook Pro has a 256MB X1600 graphics chip and Aperture 1.1 is a Universal binary... so it will be interesting to compare the speed against Lightroom. I think Apple have created a dud this time. Very nice GUI, but terribly buggy and slow.

At least Adobe call it 'Beta' lol