Aperture or Lightroom?

[ishamy]

Right guys, wife just bought me a new machine for my 30th new iMac It's the base model with a 1tb drive added. Really happy as my 'old' machine was really old!

Now I have the decision to stick with and buy LR for the Mac or move to Aperture. Basically I have pretty much never used an OSX based machines so I've got a lot to learn either way.

What would you guys do and why, if you were in my situation. I don't read that often about people using Aperture actually, any reason for that?

Thanks

 

[ishamy]

OK cool will look into the plans, but if I understand it right it's a yearly plan so I will have to carry on paying the sub in say year two to carry on using the software where as I would own the package after spending the £90 it costs standalone?

Also just read Apple are pulling Aperture soon (Rumor?) so maybe another reason to give that a miss then...