What hardware r u running Aperture on?

Just curious what people are running Aperture on: MacBook Pro with/or without an external monitor, beefy iMac, Mac Pro... maybe two different setups? What are you using?

What Psilo said. Consider waiting for the new Mac Pros if you want a stuck-in-one-place desktop box.
Any top-end Sandy Bridge iMac or MBP box will rock Aperture if you order it with strong graphics and an SSD. IMO using hard drives for laptop boot drives is obsolete.
A top-end Sandy Bridge MBP truly is a desktop replacment - - but still mobile.
In my case Aperture (3.1.2) on the 2011 17" MBP (OS 10.6.8, 8 GB RAM, high resolution matte display) with Apple's SSD imports 3 GB of RAW+JPEG images in much less than a minute and has those images fully processed in about 5 minutes. IMO hella fast. And edits (with both the Aperture Library and referenced Masters on the SSD) are essentially instant.
iMacs are good value and strong, but the problems with even the best Thunderbolt iMacs are:
• Glossy-only display that not everyone can tolerate. Personally they gag me.
• Hard drives are only upgradable by Apple, a sucky new trick in Apple's bag.
• They are sessile desktop-constrained boxes but lack the versatility and upgradability of Mac Pros.
But as far as Aperture performance goes all the top end Thunderbolt boxes will be spectacular.
I used to have a MP plus MBP setup, but with the 2011 Sandy Bridge MBP I now use the one 17" MBP (plus secondary display when not in the field) for everything.
HTH
-Allen

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Get another external drive (twice the size of your current data at least) for backups and clone the SSD drive of the macmini on a daily basis towards the thunderbolt storage. And create a backup plan for the thunderbolt storage to another drive. That will work great!
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I'm in the market for purchasing a macbook pro (currently have an 07' model macbook), and my question is will the 13 inch 2.4 Ghz be able to properly run aperture 3? My current macbook is able to run it, but quickly overheats and becomes alot slower, and while the 15 inch mbp does sound great, the size is just too big for me (also on a tight budget).
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Depends on your definition of properly and, more specifically, what types of images you usually work with in Aperture. JPEGS would be no problem. Smaller RAW files should be fine as well. If, however you're working with RAW files from a newer DLSR (15-24 megapixels each), then you're going to find Aperture sluggish. This isn't only because of the processor, which is still decent, but also because of the slower integrated graphics rather than the higher performance discrete graphics found in the larger MacBook Pros.
You'll also have a relatively slow 5400 RPM hard drive unless you're going for an SSD (which I doubt given your budget). All these factors add up to limit performance in one of the most performance intensive apps around.
FWIW, if Aperture is your primary app (it's mine and I love it), I'd go with a 15". Besides performance, the screen size on a 13" is pretty small for working with apps like Aperture and Photoshop and hi-res photos. If you really can't swing the 15", you might want to take a look at Lightroom. Although I don't like it as much as Aperture, particularly when it comes to organizing my images, it does perform much better on slower hardware.

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I want to buy a new mac. Would a 21.5 inch Imac run Aperture 3 with 4GB or ram until I can upgrade to 8GB? And would the stock 512mb video card be fine.

davidfromdartmouth wrote:Would a 21.5 inch Imac run Aperture 3 with 4GB or ram until I can upgrade to 8GB?
Specifically, after you buy a Mac test for RAM needs by calculating page outs as described below. The good news is that RAM is cheap enough that every Aperture user who can should upgrade to at least 8 GB RAM.
And would the stock 512mb video card be fine.
All 2011 Macs will "run" Aperture, but lesser CPUs and/or lesser GPUs will provide lesser performance. What "fine" is depends on your workflow and how demanding you are. There are some folks here happy with the power of the box you suggest.
GENERIC UPGRADE ADVICE
Apologies in advance to those for whom this info is redundant.
Some general guidelines for operation of heavy graphics applications (specifically Aperture):
• Only the strongest Macs will provide the strongest operation. Owners of weaker boxes (CPU, GPU, i/o, RAM) or older boxes will experience lesser performance.
• There is a huge difference in hardware needs among workflows. A heavy pro workflow will only work best on a top well-equipped modern box.
• As RAM prices continually fall RAM needs will continually grow. This has been true since the beginning of computing.
OS X has enabled Photoshop, for instance, to take advantage of at least 32 GB RAM for many years even though 32-bit operation limited direct RAM access to ~3 GB RAM.
• All computers/OSs/workflows are different. Each individual user needs to carefully evaluate (meaning see what the early adopters report) workflow and hardware operation BEFORE upgrading any application or OS.
• Hardware upgrades should be planned for always-increasing future OS/application demands, not just for today. After all, a computer purchased today is used for the next 3 years, not last year.
• SSDs rock. All users, all apps will benefit from using a solid state drive as the boot/apps drive. Strongly recommended. RAM-challenged setups will additionally benefit from 10x faster page outs.
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If you're NOT running Aperture 3.6 and want to update to 10.10.3 - read this FIRST.

If you’re NOT running Aperture 3.6 and want to update to 10.10.3 - read this FIRST.
In this personal scenario, I used a Mavericks (10.9) test hard drive to see what would happen if I updated to 10.10.3. No photos were harmed in the making of this post. I have full redundant back-ups of everything as should you before attempting ANY OS update. There simply is no excuse not to back up and keep your personal data protected in this day and age.
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Process:         airportd [53]
Path:            /usr/libexec/airportd
Identifier:      airportd
Version:         ??? (???)
Code Type:       X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [1]
Date/Time:       2011-10-21 20:06:16.761 -0500
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K540)
Report Version: 6
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000004
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   airportd                                0x00001303 0x1000 + 771
Thread 1: Dispatch queue: com.apple.libdispatch-manager
0   libSystem.B.dylib                       0x9416b382 kevent + 10
1   libSystem.B.dylib                       0x9416ba9c _dispatch_mgr_invoke + 215
2   libSystem.B.dylib                       0x9416af59 _dispatch_queue_invoke + 163
3   libSystem.B.dylib                       0x9416acfe _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 240
4   libSystem.B.dylib                       0x9416a781 _pthread_wqthread + 390
5   libSystem.B.dylib                       0x9416a5c6 start_wqthread + 30
Thread 2:
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1   libSystem.B.dylib                       0x9416a9a8 _pthread_wqthread + 941
2   libSystem.B.dylib                       0x9416a5c6 start_wqthread + 30
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Have you checked what it going on, when Aperture becomes sluggish?
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The Activity Monitor: Launch it from the Utilities folder in the Applications folder. This window will tell you, which processes are using the cpu, the RAM, and doing page outs to the disk. You can see, if other processing are competing with Aperture and slowing it down, orif Aperture is starved for memory.
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Is your library on the internal drive or an external drive?
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Hi all! I've been a relatively happy Pro Tools user for quite a while now and know my way around it pretty well. I've been using LE 6.4 on OS 10.3.9 and 5.1.1 on 9.2.2 with a Digi 001 as hardware. Though I'm happy with Pro Tools I keep reading about Pros who compose in Logic...Gareth Jones, Depeche Mode, Alan Wilder, Erasure, Pet Shop Boys....and then bring the tracks into PT for mixing. So I've always wondered about doing this...adding Logic to my system. I tried a version of Logic a bunch of years back....Logic VS, a horrible program that was supposed to work with Roland DAWs, but really didn't. I swore I'd never use Logic again, but that was before apple bought it.
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PS I have worked with DM...they rule...and I do know what they used. You are correct in that they compose in Logic, and mix in PT. Except for the last album, which was all PT. But Martin loves Logic, and still uses it now.
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