Can Aperture run on an ibook?

I was thinking of buying Aperture until I looked at the minimum system requirements on the apple website.
The mininum it asks for is a g4 powerbook with 1.25ghz and 1gb ram.
I know these are only guidelines and wanted to know if you think it would be possible to run it on my 14", 1ghz, 1.25gb ram ibook?
It has already amazed me by running FCP (not HD but an earlier version) and Photoshop.

Sorry, but no. Aperture also requires one of the graphics processors listed in the Aperture tech specs. Even the graphics chip in the latest iBook, the Radeon 9550, doesn't qualify. So I don't think Aperture will even install (Motion, with similar requirements, will not).

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Will Aperture run OK on iBook G4?

Hi everybody! I am new to this forum, and I'm hoping for great answers!
Well, I've had a brief look at Aperture, and it looks perfect for my every-day photography. The only "but" is that I'm running an iBook G4. I am not a professional photographer, but I am going to use RAW files in Aperture. I know that it will install in the first place, but will it run OK? It doesn't have to be supersmooth, but a certain speed is required.
Will Aperture run OK on an iBook G4?
Thanks for all answers!

Aperture a waste of money: absolutely not!!
I think you are looking at the issue at end for the opposite end of the telescope.
As I said there are many things you can do with it even on a modest configuration, as long as you are not dreaming about doing real-time 16bits/color image adjustments.
10 megapix RAW images are tough files to handle. They are a new frontier. With my trusty copy of Graphic Converter it took 35 seconds to get a simple preview on my PBG4 15". Unusable. Nikon capture ran slow, so did DxO. Even photoshop ran slow on large images.
Aperture is interesting precisely for that kind of files. It solves the problem of handling those pesky RAW files that I had completely given up on because of the software and computer end. I shoot RAW again, and the result is often way better.
But up until yesterday, you needed a powerful desktop machine to handle serious photo work, or had to restrain yourself to 8bit/color images (jpeg) which are often inferior looking (especially if the picture was not exposed perfectly and you needed some exposure compensation afterwards).
Recent mac laptops are levelling the playing field and allowing laptops to be a viable alternative to a desktop again.
Of course with a slower machine you can always "develop" RAW files one at a time, with this or that. but the true magic of Aperture is to manipulate RAW with as much flexibility, comfort and long-term anticipation of future needs as if it were JPEGs. I think that's priceless but it does cost more CPU cycles....
So this is why I'm saying you might be looking at this from the wrong end: the G4 is basically a 5 years old processor. It won't get any better soon, and it will never get up to the precise challenge at hand here...
Aperture (and other tools emerging now such as Dxo etc) need us to rethink our approach to computer processing of photos, and this is not just a marketing gimmick, it's real...
Hope this helps putting things in the right kind of light..
yours truly
mp

Can't run warcraft III on my ibook g4

At fisrt everything is nice, warcraft is running smoothly on my ibook.
but after i reformatting my ibook, warcraft no longer can be run on my ibook. It quits immediately after i open the warcraft.
Any idea of wat had happened?

I suggest you contact Blizzard/WoW support: http://www.blizzard.com/support/?id=msi0281p

Can i make Aperture run faster ?

To help those struggling to understand why their computer is running Aperture slowly, let me add a few thoughts to help out. I've been using the application since 1.0, bought a G5 quad to run it (launched on same day) with the stock video card. My Photographic interest was Landscape and macro work in film (hobby) and been using digital since 94 and now turned Pro adding Portrats and Weddings to my interest.
How do i run Aperture at a decent speed ?
1. Invest in good hardware. In any of Apple's product line max-out the graphics card option (except perhaps expensive Quadro fx4500), max out CPU option then the RAM. Invest as much as possible in the non-upgradeable components. Over time you can add more ram, but don't underestimate the importance of RAM in OSX. Keep your boot/application and data drives below 70% capacity as above this they start to slow down.
2. Use the vaults and backup the library (don't forget any referenced images).
3. When editing images, don't whang the sliders freely left to right. Be a crafstman, use the number adjustment arrows, with the modifier keys for fine tunng SHIFT and ALT. This is faster.
4. If an image has a lot of spot'n'patches, do this first before any other adjustments (or untick their box in the HUD). Similarly for strighten, do this before H&S or exposure mods.
5. Switch off previews, for marginal improvements.
6. Don't use full-screen mode, its lovely, but with my awful graphic card it kills it when adjusting. Remove the projects window W and control bar D. Toggle the adjustments with I. Real estate is arranged better with the browser on LHS.
7. Try culling the rejects with the viewer off V and maximise the thumbnail size. Suprisingly fast and effective when only going for rejects.
8. After culling use the auto stack feature to reduce the number of images your viewing into 'like' shots. Helps when choosing your story for output.
9. Setup some presets for varying degrees of edge sharpen and White balance as this helps get you get in the vacinity of where you want the adjustment. eg. I have five increasing degrees of edge sharpening intensity and six white balance settings (daylight, cloudy, shade, flash, tungsten, flourescent) which gets me closer to a good WB faster than playing with multiple sliders.
10. Learn the keyboard shortcut.
11. Use Aperture feedback. If your unsatisfied with anything then tell apple as well as the forums. So far we have seen big improvements in Aperture, some were really alpha/beta issues but it is clear Apple is serious about investing in this young Application. I hope they invest in the pixel-pushing, local editing, masks and layers abilities, but do it true to an intuitave workflow platform that Aperture has become.
12. RTFM as well as buy a book - invest in your skills, become better, faster and ultimately more productive.
13. Don't believe in bad luck !
The reason for Aperture running sluggish when using specific adjustments is because i need to upgrade my video card. Fortunately, i can, but might invest in a MP for more storage.

If You go to the Aperture site page for basic requirements needed to run it, It will state a Powerbook in fairly basic design will run the Application.
And before I purchased Aperture, and as you can see I updated my RAM to 2 GB.
I ordered this laptop with the top line of all hardware possible.
So I could run also run a 20" screen.
And no, I didn't pack the 20" in my suitcase.
It's amazing how far you have to make sure people don't take one word and run with it.
Not ONLY Aperture, but DDP (Digital Photo Professional), as I hate when people only use abbreviations for everything, and the person trying to learn something is slammed out the door for even looking.
But both applications run pig azz slow. So much so, and I also use the Activity Monitor to keep watch over things in realtime.
When things run this slow to the point you can't see a live change in the view,
You don't learn much, and you can't complete a simple project.
Like one person suggested earlier, just tweak the image one mark at a time.
Well hey, we don't have 6 hours to make one adjustment.
The processor is running at 100% and never backs off till you kill the application.
Making the move from Canon G5, to a Canon 30D and a few thou in lenses, is about the biggest joke while in Europe. Yea, drag all this stuff you don't see to Europe, with 2 portable hard drives to keep the Mac hard drive happy.
It all adds up to roughly a $7000 dollar mistake.
The ads are a total farce. Get this, and do stuff beyond the norm.
Yea Right, like your going to bring a G5 tower in a suitcase.
Oh sure, I'll struggle with the software till get through with 20 images, and
what if you have 300?
Now, one question... Who's next , as far as an application that runs RAW images with no lag. With out all the BS.
Power Book G4-1.67-2GB, Bluetooth Mouse & Keys Mac OS X (10.4.8) 20" screen for dual view.

Can't run FCP v.3 on my ibook

Does anyone know why I can't run my FCP version 3 software on my computer. I get an error message asking me to re-install the programme as it can't find a file. I re-install and get the same message. I was previously running this version on my old titanium 667GHz laptop with great sucesss.
I would be grateful for any advice.
Many thanks
ibook G4 1.42GHz Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Could be that Tiger and FCP 3 don't get along (never tried it actually), but make sure the install is done right before you change the OS or create a new startup disk for FCP 3. Uninstall FCP 3 first: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93742
If the reinstall after uninstalling fails... I'll bet you need to setup a startup disk running OS 9.2.2 or Jaguar 10.2.8... to run FCP 3 on your iBook. I have an article about this in the current issue of Creative Cow's magazine. Click here for a free download of it: http://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/newpage_wrapper.cgi?forumid=1&page=http://www.creativecow.net/magazine/cowmagsubscribe.html
Jerry

Can I run aperture on 2 machines,

Can I run aperture on 2 machines,desktop iMac 27 and a Mac book pro on the same licence, and why is the app store not showing that I have a legal copy.
I think I bought the download direct from the Aperture site not the app store from memory about 3-4 years ago

Just realized two possibly confusing typos:
Frank Caggiano wrote:
Yes you can run the DVD version of Aperture on two systems as yu describe.
The reason Aperture is not showing up in the Mac App Store in your purchases is because the two version are separate. It is not possible to turn the DVD version into the MAC version. ( That should be MAS (Mac App Store) and not MAC )
If you want it to appear in the MAC as purchased you would have to buy it from the MAS
(Ditto here, MAC should read MAS)
Sorry for any confusion.

Im buying an ibook g4 ( can it run warcraft 3 smoothly?)

Im buying an ibook g4. The specs are 1.33 ghz with 1 gb of ram. Can this run warcraft 3 smoothly?

Not sure if this will help, but taken from their website (if right one):
Systyem requirements:
Macintosh® OS 9.0 or higher/ Mac OS X 10.1.3. or higher:
400 MHz G3 processor
128 MB of RAM
16 MB ATI Technologies or nVidia chipset 3D video card
700 MB HD space
4X CD-ROM drive
Recommended:
600 MHz processor
256 MB of RAM
32 MB 3D video card
DirectX® 8.1 compatible sound card (Windows)
Multiplayer:
Low-latency, active Internet connection rated at 28.8 Kbps or faster. LAN play requires TCP/IP connection.

Can I run iMessage on an iBook G4?

I am resurrecting my old iBook G4 (late 2004 - 1.33GHz PowerPC G4, 1.25 GB DDR, currently running 10.4.11, but I am considering an upgrade to 10.5).
I know that this model and OS came with iChat, and that iChat supposedly was replaced with iMessage. Does this mean that I cannot use the iChat feature anymore? Will it work with the iMessage network? Can I install iMessage on this old of a platform? Will upgrading to 10.5.8 (the max this machine can support) allow iMessage? I have done a lot of research online and cannot find a minimum software requirement for iMessage.
Thank you in advance.
Tim

No. Message requires Mountain Lion since your iBook can't run it.
As it says in https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4146357?start=0&tstart=0 you should be able to chat from iChat to Messages.
Allan

Can Aperture not be set up to show a "Last Import" smart folder?

I'm trying to make the transfer from using iPhoto to using Aperture.
One thing I found really great in iPhoto was the smart folder that was simply set to show the last import, no matter when that import was done - whether it was today, yesterday or 6 months ago.
The reason I found this so handy was because I set my iPad up in iTunes to only sync the photos from that Last Import smart folder, rather than all my photos.
That way, every time I synced my iPad, I always had my most recent photos on my iPad, no matter when the pictures were taken.
Now with Aperture, I cannot see a way to create anything similar. The best I can do is to create a smart folder with photos imported within the last month, let's say.
But the problem with that is that if I haven't imported any new photos for over a month, then the next time I sync my iPad, then all my photos will no longer be on the iPad.
If I create a longer timeframe, to let's say 3 months, then I might end up with way too many photos trying to sync across, and that's something I don't want. I could end up with hundreds and hundreds of photos, and I don't have the free space to be able to do this!
When I used "Last Import" with iPhoto, then I always only had around 50 or 60 photos, because that's just generally how many I usually imported at any one time. Sometimes it was more, sometimes less, but the average worked for me.
So to sum up: Can Aperture not be set up to show a "Last Import" smart folder, regardless of date?
Or alternatively, is there any way I could "hack" or "trick" Aperture into doing something like this so that I always have a managable amount of the most recent photos on my iPad?

Hello Brett,
that does not seem to be an easy probem as you discovered.
Some Workarounds:
You might to use a smart album rule "Import session is" instead of a date range, but that will not be automatic.
Create a folder "recently added" and keep your recent projects inside that folder; create a smart album at the top level of that folder; move older projects somewhere else.
Or enable the Photo Stream - that is the current replacement for the "most recently added" album; it will (is supposed to) always show the most recent 1000 images.
If you are familiar with AppleScript, you can make Aperture run an AppleScript on import (Import Settings) to add your imported image to an album of new images. From time to time remove the older images.
Sorry, but no really convenient way to do it..
Regards
Léonie

I get error message: iPhoto can not run due to an incompatible version of ProKit on this system. What should I do?

Hi, I have an iPhoto that can't run and shows this message. What should I do? I had Aperture before, but I deleted it. Now iPhoto shows some error. Please someone help me,
Thanks,
K3V1Nbot

K3V1Nbot wrote:
Hi, I have an iPhoto that can't run and shows this message. What should I do? I had Aperture before, but I deleted it. Now iPhoto shows some error. Please someone help me,
Thanks,
K3V1Nbot
Update ProKit if there is an update or more recent release.
Pete

Can't update iTunes on iBook G4 (OS10.4.11)

Hallo. My Mum just gave me her old iPhone 4s. It doesn't have a 'software update' section under settings/general. I wanted to try to update it somehow using iTunes, but I need to update my IBook G4's iTunes first. But when I try my laptop just says it can't connect with the server. However, there's no problem with my internet connection. What is going on and what should I do?

Without quoting you exact version numbers of everything I can tell you right now it won't be possible. In order to update the iPhone you will have to be running a version of iTunes that is at least as young as the iPhone and by the time the 4S was out they were well into a version that could not be run under Tiger OS 10.4, even the latest that you will get with Software Update.
I am not sure which versions match up but it may be possible if your iPhone is sufficiently old, and you wanted to go to the expense and trouble of updating your computer to run Leopard OS that you may be able to bridge the gap. Finding Leopard OS won't be easy but at least the prices have dropped now that it is so old nobody wants it anymore. It used to run $200 but I think I have seen copies for $50. Whether or not you can even run it will depend upon the exact specifications of your G4.
All the above said, you might see if you have a friend with a newer computer who could help you upgrade.

I have iMac and need a good photo editing program to use. Reviews say aperture runs really slow with Lion, any suggestions?

I need a program where I can remove objects and touch up dead grass, etc.

Reviews say Aperture runs really slow with Lion, any suggestions?
To add on to Corky02 answer:
The recent Aperture release AP 3.3.x is very efficient, both on Lion and Mountain Lion. But you need a decent hardware to support it. The older Macs will have problems with the storage and CPU requirements. For good performance on large raw images plenty of RAM is important, at least 4GB, but 8GB would be much better, and your library should be on a fast disk, preferably on an internal drive. And don't let the system drive get too full.
Many reports about Aperture being slow are due to putting the Aperture library onto slow disks or acessing the original image files over the network, insufficient RAM, or corrupted or ill-designedAperture databases.
Aperture excels at all kinds of image processing that can be considered image developement - raw processing and color/lighting adjustments, but does not do compositing. If you are shooting raw and want professional image developement I'd recommend to do this in Aperture and not in iPhoto - you will have much more control over this in Aperture (after a steep learning curve). You can also repair and retouch the image to correct minor blamishes. For graphics compositing and inpainting you can set up an external editor and send your images from Aperture to this external editor - any of the editors Corky recommended would be o.k. for this.
To see, if you will want the advanced image processing in Aperture or the easy to use, more basic options in iPhoro will be sufficient to you have a look at the Aperture User manual, or the tutorial on the support page: Aperture Support
But Aperture is a professional apllication, not "plug and play". You should only consider it, if you are willing to spend some time on learning to use it properly and are willing to work your way through the manual.
Regards
Léonie

Where can I see a sample iBook.

I do not have any other Apple device but an iMac (running 10.6.8). I do not want to upgrade or (yet) buy an iPad.
So where (using my iMac) can I find a typical iBook to examine and determine what should be my target in terms of preparing my own novel for possible ePublication.
I seem to be going round in circles with iPhone and iPad / IOS ... and it appears iBooks are not available with the facility I have anyway.
Being very pro Apple in every other sense, I am reluctant to go elsewhere before researching the possibilities with Apple ... but I'm not finding it easy. Perhaps I'm just not digging deep enough.

Bump.

Does Aperture run on MacBook 2.0GHz model without graphics card?

I'm considering buying a MacBook and wondered if Aperture runs on the 2.0GHz version or not since it does not have a graphics card.
Thanks,

While I haven't use it if you check out Apple's Aperture page you'll see that according to Apple you can "Enjoy Aperture on any current Mac desktop — Mac mini, iMac, or Mac Pro — or laptop — MacBook or MacBook Pro."
So yes you can run Aperture just fine on a MacBook. It's really too bad that the onboard video gets such a bad rap. If you're working in a 2D environment it's most likely more than capable of doing what's required and in most cases when people have concerns it's really a question of CPU and not GPU performance. It fairs much less in 3D though.

ITunes 7- runs slow, makes ibook run slow

hi,
ever since downloading itunes 7, i've been having a lot of issues with it and my ibook. my computer has been running insanely slow and itunes, if it decides to open at all, takes a few minutes to open. most of the time it just says "application not responding" and i have to force quit even though itunes never even opened. it's gotten to a point where my computer is pretty much unusable. can anyone help?
thanks
ibook g4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Try to download iTunes 7.0.1 via Software Update. If iTunes is still unstable, then the best way IS to re-install the previous version. Most people are doing that.

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