On Oct 21, 2005, at 9:26 AM, Bertil Holmberg wrote:
iPhoto is nice but a terrible memory hog, perhaps even worse than Photoshop.
Well, not quite. Opening just iPhoto v5.0.4 and one high resolution JPEG file into edit mode, it consumes 115M of Real RAM and 305M of Virtual RAM. Opening the same file with Photoshop CS9 consumes 95M of Real RAM and 470M of Virtual RAM (Mac OS X v10.4.2 on an iMac G4 10" with 1G Real RAM installed). As you start to edit, Photoshop's memory consumption goes up quickly, iPhoto's doesn't change very much.
But Photoshop is much more efficient for any kind of serious operations. I'm far from an iPhoto regular user, but for the very nooob of newbie users it works pretty darn well. At the point where it becomes insufferably slow and inefficient, that class of users is ready for something like Photoshop Elements 3.
BTW, what do you guys think about Apple excluding Pentax users from Aperture?
I think it's a matter of priorities, visibility and relevancy rather than a plot intended to exclude anyone. Quite a few other cameras were excluded as well. There's a back door, though: since Aperture does include the ability to use DNG files, anything covered by Adobe's DNG Converter is covered too.
Godfrey
