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One of the things that has become apparent over the first week of Apertures 3’s life is that for some of us lucky ones (me included) Aperture 3 is rock solid and very fast. As usual the happy Aperture 3 users are probably the silent majority whereas those with issues are understandably jumping up and down getting annoyed and very frustrated! Seeing people talking about adjustments taking 20 seconds or Aperture crashing constantly all seems strange as you would have though these kinds of incompatibilities would have been ironed out during beta, especially considering that if its hardware incompatibilities, that there are a very finite set of hardware configurations that can be used and tested.

Another particular difference is the polar opinions on running Aperture 3 in 32bit vs. 64bit mode, for me running Aperture is 64bit mode provides a lightening fast, stable and fun environment. You see the battle lines being drawn across websites, blogs and twitter, people proclaiming that Aperture is the worst ever and that Lightroom is the saviour of mankind (and the reverse of course!!) I admit to following talk of Aperture on twitter and do jump into the odd conversation in defence of Aperture, not to push my views on people but to try and correct glaring inaccuracies or provide Aperture biased opinions for the questions people ask. :)

Sometime I feel like I annoy people who are having problems with Aperture when I chirp in saying “mines great and running fine” all i’m trying to do is give people a bit of hope that Aperture ISN’T the fatally flawed software that some people would have you believe.
Despite having no shares in Apple and no vested interest in people liking Aperture I will continue to offer my take on it, my views and guides and reviews as I work though them, if these help people then thats fantastic :) To those who have e-mailed me and been…how should I put this…direct and to the point ;) about how my views are incorrect and plain wrong…I’m sorry you think that (but thanks for getting in touch! :P) While people carry on appreciating what I write i’ll carry on thanks all the same!

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