Well, Aperture 2 is certainly impressing me so far on my old mac – Power Mac G5 (Dual 2 with 2GB RAM and a 64MB video card). There is still a lag when you want to start into some of the more processor intensive tools, but the wait is considerably shorter than what it was for Aperture 1.5.6. I’m certainly impressed – comparatively, it almost flies! The new RAW engine is also very good – able to recover details from what was pitch black. Being able to see the cold pixels certainly helps in that regard as well. Being suitably impressed with the trial, I just hope the process for upgrading libraries is painless as well. The interface is also pretty snappy, though the loss of some of the icons that helped people understand the sliders may introduce a bit of a learning curve. Exports are also pretty fast – at least if it is slower, it lets you do stuff while exporting.
Here is a quickly edited version of a file that I had a go at with Aperture 2. You can find the 1.5 version in the gallery.
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