Aperture is Apple’s pro photo management application that I use. Today Apple announced version 2.0 which I am excited to try out for myself.
Early reviews claim big improvements in speed which will make any photographer happy with.
For more information a great resource is the Aperture Users Professional Network (AUPN), they have a lot of great resources for photographers and illustrators that use Aperture.
AUPN will be a great place to check in over the next couple of weeks as more and more people work with the latest release and report their impressions.
I use Aperture 1.5 for my post-processing. I run it on a MBP Core2 Duo 2.16GHz with 3GB of RAM and a 120GB HDD. It runs like a dog. It’s ridiculously slow.
I’m interested in evaluating the 2.0 but I noticed that they warn you that an upgrade is irreversible unless you first make a backup of your photos.