Apple users : Aperture trial now available + update

Samurai Jack · 2 Nov 2006 at 22:37

Apple now have available a 30 day trial for download http://www.apple.com/aperture/trial/

Also there is the 1.5.1 update http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/aperture151update.html

Broadbandplacey · 2 Nov 2006 at 23:14

thanks, will have a go with the trial

nomore · 3 Nov 2006 at 00:39

I hope they've improved the performance of crop/straightening of RAW files in this update.

Downloading via software update now...

Samurai Jack · 3 Nov 2006 at 08:32

nomore said:
I hope they've improved the performance of crop/straightening of RAW files in this update.

Downloading via software update now...

What's the spec of your Mac?

My girlfriend just ordered Aperture for me and I hope to have some time running through it over the weekend, so I'll check out those functions.

JimmyEatWorms · 3 Nov 2006 at 09:13

Am I correct in thinking Aperture won't run on a Mac Mini?

nomore · 3 Nov 2006 at 09:50

Samurai Jack said:
What's the spec of your Mac?

My girlfriend just ordered Aperture for me and I hope to have some time running through it over the weekend, so I'll check out those functions.

I have a dual 2GHz Power Mac G5 with 2GB RAM, ATI9600 Pro.

I also have a 17" MacBook Pro. Intel Core Duo 2.16GHz, 2GB RAM, ATI X1600 (256MB). The graphics chip in the MacBook Pro is very fast... e.g. Doom 3 runs at 1680x1080 with all special effects turned on, and it's at least 50fps. Since Aperture relies on the GPU, this should make it faster, in theory.

The RAW files I work with are about 7.5MB each (Canon 30D), and Aperture is fine for most things, except rotation and cropping. I've got into the habbit of cropping/straightening as the last step of a workflow. Those two functions are especially slow if you've applied other effects/filters/adjustments to the image first.

nomore · 3 Nov 2006 at 10:02

JimmyEatWorms said:
Am I correct in thinking Aperture won't run on a Mac Mini?

Yes. Apple stated that the ATI 9600 is the lowest spec . graphics card they say will work with it. The G4 Mac Minis had a 9200, and the Intel Mac Minis have Intel Integrated... but it does support the Intel GMA 950... so try the demo.

King_Boru · 3 Nov 2006 at 12:25

every intel based mac will run aperture.

A.N.Other · 3 Nov 2006 at 13:40

JimmyEatWorms said:
Am I correct in thinking Aperture won't run on a Mac Mini?

Take a look at some of the mac blogs for patches to allow Aperture to run on a lower spec mac than it was intended for. Lots of them about.

themask70 · 3 Nov 2006 at 14:18

Cheers for sharing, i'll have a go with it later.