477 hi all. i reccently bought aperture. unfortunately i was only able to see the first presentation at the soho store in nyc and i was relly excited to revolution my entire workflow with this wonderful software. i opened the box in the Ramadi US military base where i'm living ready to spend some time to learn the new application with the certainty that it would pay off in the long term. i tried using aperture for two weeks and i was about to have some soldier come and light up my powerbook. i was running it on a 15 inch pb 1.67gh with 1gb of ram and the right graphic card. it was still slow and it took forever to do anything. the interface is elegant but that's about it. i don't think it was designed for people like me, that live out of suitcases and only work with laptops. i read though that many problems still exist when running it from a high end g5 machine. the captioning system is slow and batching is not as smooth as it should be. the keyword interface is real nice though. i don't keep my cards on my lap top, and selecting the images to upload in the library is not as easy than with other applications. i shoot a lot of high ISO frames and the raw converter is far more noisier than camera raw. plus it doesn't have a shadow tool. the sharpener is hard to manage compared to the photoshop one. their initial idea of using metadata was bright but most of us are used to work with photoshop and jumping from aperture to ps and back is not a fast process. the web galleries and books are nice, as well as other secondary tools, but the core system is not suited for what i do. sorry apple. 500 dollars wasted. i just hope that they realize that we need to work with our images without seeing that spinning wheel all the time. i don't know much about bugs but it seems that many commands just don't work as they should. i updated to 1.01 but it did not help. there is no real batch captioning except for the lift and stamp tool. takes many clicks and frustration to work on several images at a time. i don't know who were their photo advisers but for sure there were no photojournalists that work the way i do. on the ground, dusty and dirty, with a few fire wire hard drives and not so much time to edit entire stories before filing. i switched to apple because i wanted a machine that worked better and using aperture feels like working on my old DELL. far too slow and not focused on the important things. so i'll go back to my fotostation and photoshop for every image. hoping that the california dudes will listen to the chatter and adjust. or in adobe lightoroom I ll need to trust. 71 2006-01-21T06:12:49Z 1 2008-03-12T12:54:11Z true 3381 false 9365 2007-06-27T08:30:12Z Ramadi true false i-hate-aperture 1 2008-03-12T12:54:11Z 1896