On Mar 14, 2006, at 9:48 PM, Sylwester Pietrzyk wrote:
I hope it will be priced well below price of Apple's Aperture - I'm
hoping for
~200-250$ range, especially that Aperture has strange hardware
requirements
(on the one side it is enough to have Powerbook G4, on the other - it
doesn't work on much faster G5/1.6 which I have) and doesn't
support .PEFs
at all.
I suspect Apple are just trying to sell you newer hardware, as the
required hardware is pretty much what their current line offers.
On a more serious note, I suspect it has more to do with the video
card than the processor. I think the newer Powerbooks have quite a
lot of video memory available. G5/1.6 has 64Mb, and the 17"
Powerbook has 128Mb. I think the later 15" Powerbook also had 128Mb
but it's been replaced with the new Intel notebook which has 256Mb!
I also have a G5/1.6, and the video card is pushed pretty hard when
driving a pair of 1600x1200 screens.
The pricing will reflect the marketplace that Lightroom is aimed
for. Aperture is aimed squarely at professional photographers, but I
suspect that Macr^H^H^H^H Adobe will set their sights on enthusiasts
as well, which means they'd hopefully price it a bit lower. I'm just
guessing here.
Cheers,
- Dave
