iPhoto overloaded (was Re: [X4U] Apple Aperture target Audience?)

[Zane H. Healy]

At 2:38 PM -0600 10/20/05, Steve Self wrote:
>WPerhaps another aside, unless one is a professional photographer, 
>in which case iPhoto is WAY TOO weak, having thousands and thousands 
>of images available on a local HD seems like a huge over kill. Keep 
>the really good or current stuff on the local drive, off load the 
>rest onto DVDs or other external HDs.

Actually, I'm trying to figure out how to migrate a bunch of my 
images to CD-R or DVD-R, but when I try to burn so much as *ONE* 
image to a CD-R *or* DVD-R, it complains that there isn't enough 
room?!?!?

>I consider Aperture to be the professional level program for image 
>adjustment, processing and cataloging, but it may really require a 
>Dual or Quad cpu to make it fly like we would want it to. It could 
>be just another dog on a iMac G5. But then the iMac G5 is a consumer 
>level machine and to expect it to deliver high-end, professional 
>performance is silly.

Have you seen the system requirements for "Aperture"?  They're 
frightening, there might be a reason it was announced at the same 
time as the Quad processor systems :^(

>That said, I still think some cleaning up, rebuilding databases, and 
>clearing caches might help iPhoto some.

I'm open to suggestions, as to where to start.

		Zane

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