Aperture 1.1
Aperture v1.1 is now shipping. It is quite nice and snappy on a MacBook Pro with 2GB of RAM. I migrated all of my photos to the new RAW converter and there is a noticeable difference; an improvement in most cases. It is clear that extreme adjustments interact with it differently.
Beyond the speed difference, the biggest change I’m noticing is that the near blinding brightness of the MBP’s screen in comparison to the PowerBook G4 1.25ghz (first generation screen) yields a very different feel to the photos.
In these few months of returning to iPhoto ‘06, I came to realize two things. First, iPhoto is an awesome application — generally a joy to use and quite capable. Secondly, I can’t live without stack-and-select along with freeform keywords.
That the price dropped is interesting and it was quite nice of Apple to offer rebates for owners of 1.0.