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by: sunfer_p December 10, 2010 7:57 AM PST

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Aperture slowing my macbook pro

by sunfer_p - 12/10/10 7:57 AM

Hi all!
I'm using Aperture 3.1 for my photo editing, every time I open Aperture my computer starts to slow and cannot even work with Aperture! updated several times but problem persists. Any comments?



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Quit all other programs

by sturner--2008 - 12/15/10 2:16 PM

In Reply to: Aperture slowing my macbook pro by sunfer_p

Even if you quit all other programs while in Apeture you may still find it too slow to work with. Most photographers that I know of use at least an iMac or a Mac Pro to run Apeture. The graphics card in your macbook pro may not be good enough to achieve the speed you want. The other thing to look into is the amount of RAM you have on your MacBook Pro. If you haven't maxed it out then you will have a slow machine using a high power graphics program.


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hardware

by gestiss-photo - 12/20/10 5:04 AM

In Reply to: Aperture slowing my macbook pro by sunfer_p

I depends on your hardware... An Intel core duo is necessary.
You can go on applications-> utilitary, and there is a tool named activity monitor. You will see if the processor is 100%, if RAM is missing, etc.


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Please throw Aperture 3.0 in the garbage

by justinphoto84 - 5/8/11 9:08 AM

In Reply to: Aperture slowing my macbook pro by sunfer_p

My best advice i can give to you is: get Lightroom 3,

after 'trying' to keep on using Aperture, which has become so slow, so unresponsive and full of bugs that it actually became a total useless piece of software, tried everything, from rebuilding libraries, rerendering previews, bla bla bla, nothing helped!

Aperture even managed to damage photos in my aperture library beyond repair, and they were just gone! (so lucky i always backup)

i am very happy to have gotten in the Lightroom family, which is blazingly fast (even with my 25mb raw files from Nikon D3x) and quick back and forth edits with Photoshop.


again, Aperture doesn't belong on your computer, it belongs in the garbage where it came from

(signed, a very happy ex-aperture user)

ps: i work on a Macbook pro 2.53 Ghz with 4 GB ram


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