Posts by Irish

Apple bets on Mac-only photo land grab with Aperture 3

Article reads like a glorified footnote..

Man, talk about taking their press release and copying it!? I'll give you some pointers to amend the article. Ok 1. as Mo says in her comment strictly speaking Apple's Aperture competes with Adobe's Lightroom as opposed to Photoshop as it's more of an image management application than advanced editing suite.

2. You fail to mention the fact that Lightroom has seen much more frequent development and upgrades than Aperture. This is the first major update to Aperture in two years. As a result I wouldn't be too surprised if Apple has lost some of their customer base as a result.

3. A big change is the fact that Aperture is 64 bit which will no doubt made a significant difference to it's performance.

4. Another noteworthy addition to Aperture is its support for video manipulation without the need to launch iMovie or similar. This is something that Adobe hasn't added to Lightroom and neither do I think it likely they will do.

Rant over.

Apple (finally) boot camps Windows 7

What's new?

Like Sarah I too have had Windows 7 Pro 32 bit installed dual book with Snow Leopard for a while, better still I have had Magic Mouse working on Windows 7 as well. I've had no problems with Windows, granted the Magic Mouse was slightly more complicated to get going but it works well.

So I'm not sure of the benefits of installing this update, I'll give it a miss until the number of reported problems drops a bit. Then perhaps a clean install of 64 bit Ultimate is on the cards...