so yeah, how can i make aperture 3 not painfully slow? with the caveat that i don’t want to spend money on hardware upgrades etc (and afaik the CPU/GPU in my 1st gen 24" iMac isn't upgradeable anyway) ...

You’ve decided to pack-up your digital photo library and make the big move from iPhoto ’09 to Aperture 3. Luckily, if you’re using the latest versions of both ...

Aperture 3 does jump well ahead for high-noise images from what I’ve seen, but the competition has edged it out in the cleaner images. It’s always a battle between quality and speed here, but I can’t ...

Aperture 3, a long-awaited update, was released in early February with over 200 additional features. Aperture 2 had begun to creak and this worsened after the Snow Leopard update last year: a 32-bit ...