Hi,
I've been using Aperture with Leopard all weekend on a MacBook Pro
with no problems. I just fired up Photoshop CS and did some simple
stuff, and it worked fine. (I haven't gotten around to upgrading
Photoshop yet.) I haven't used the new backup features yet, but there
are some reports of issues with Time Machine and Aperture running
simultaneously, and I suspect other applications (like Lightroom)
might have a similar problem:
http://www.oreillynet.com/digitalmedia/blog/2007/10/aperture_and_leopards_time_mac.html
The rest of this is more about Leopard and not so much about
photography, so stop reading here if you are not interested.
On Oct 28, 2007, at 20:16 , Emily L. Ferguson wrote:
The biggest adjustments are going to be to the very substantial
changes in the assumptions about how one wants to work with the
computer - especially with one's habits of file access. After
viewing the preview on apple's site, I'm not sure I'm at all ready
for this set of changes.
I'm not sure what you mean. Other than getting used to new eye candy,
I haven't needed to change anything about how work. I still use
Finder in exactly the same way.
Among other things the suite of Apple applications is so much more
integrated than ever before that it is going to be a lot more
difficult to get free of the HTML enhanced email as well as the
wretched bloating full quote of the email being responded to (top
posting), and there is a lot of integration with iCal (which for me
is complete overkill) and the Address Book.
Mail is faster and flashier, but it certainly doesn't force you to
send HTML. Sending plain text emails and quoting properly is still the
same as it was before. There is nothing here compelling you to use the
new integration (although I'm finding some of them quite handy,
especially ToDos).
As far as I can tell from the Apple preview, a big monitor is going
to become essential, especially if one comes to fully using Spaces,
which I'm also not sure of the utility for me. I don't like stuff
on my desktop except the immediate things I'm working with.
Actually, it sounds like Spaces is something you would find useful,
since it's main purpose is to keep your desktop uncluttered and
focused. I wouldn't say it requires a larger display, in fact, it
might even be more useful with a smaller one. I'm using it now with
Aperture, Mail, Safari, and TextMate/Terminal windows all on 4
separate desktops. A single keyboard shortcut and I can "zoom" in on
just one task. I used do this on Linux years ago, and I'd forgotten
how useful it can be. You might want to give it a try.
Apparently Spotlight now has a "most recently viewed" feature - long
overdue, but I still use Find for just about every computer search,
since I mostly want to see all the things in my search string.
I rarely use Spotlight, and usually end up disabling it completely.
What is Find? That sounds interesting.
cheers,
robert
