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Lightroom Vs. Aperture

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the snapshootout dept.

Nonu writes "Adobe has officially released its Aperture killer, Lightroom, and the reviews are starting to come in. Ars looks at Lightroom and concludes that it's a better choice for those without bleeding-edge hardware. 'Aperture's main drawback is still performance as it was designed for bleeding-edge machines. On a quad Core 2 Duo Xeon, it is very usable but Lightroom just feels faster for everything regardless of hardware. Since Aperture relies on Core Image and a fast video card to do its adjustments (RAW decoding is done by the CPU), it's limited to what the single 3-D card can do. Lightroom does everything with the CPU and so it is likely to gain more speed as multicore systems get faster.'"

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  1. sounds about right.... by User+956 · · Score: 4, Funny

    'Aperture's main drawback is still performance as it was designed for bleeding-edge machines.

    Bleeding edge, literally. As in, they require removal of an arm and a leg.

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    The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
  2. Re:Better summaries please by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Any chance slashdot editors could actually do some editing?
    You bought that low UID on eBay, right?