Aperture 2.0 RAW processing on Tiger

Quote: "Leveraging the next-generation RAW image processing in Mac OS X Leopard, Aperture 2 delivers images of astounding quality..." -- so this really does mean I won't see RAW major processing benefits until I upgrade to Leopard? Up to 1.5.6, which I use now, Aperture had some real RAW decoding flaws especially in hair areas (I mean people's heads huh), hope this will be gone forever since 2.0 is out but is it the OS that matters most in this issue?
Sorry for asking this, didn't compare results but eager to know ))
Thank you!

I just installed Aperture 2 on a PB G4 and 10.4.11:
it works and manage D300 and D3 raw...
The only problem is that trial version will not convert your previous 1.5 library (there is no option yet to upgrade in the Italy store).

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