This is exactly what I meant when I said iPhoto is a memory hog. It
takes my 1GHz 1GB PB a minut of hard disk activety to recover after a
photo editing session with iPhoto and PS. And that's a long time to
wait when you just want to go back to your email. Sure, I could use a
Power Mac, but I don't want a nine fan windtunnel in my bedroom.
Regrettable, the Pentax RAW software is even slower. It is unusable
for all practical purposes. I shudder when I think of the next gen of
8MP+ cameras. Now, a shareware program such as Graphic Converter not
only opens Pentax RAW images when Apple can't (or won't), it does so
much faster than the Pentax software. Go figure...
Bertil
I find it adequate for simple photo management. I find it completely
doggy on my 1.4gig Powerbook with a gig of RAM if I try to use it to
edit photos. It's quicker to launch CS2 once (with the inevitable
wait for everything to load) and then double-click on each photo in
turn to load it up for editing.
