| 10 July 2006, The combination of Mac
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| | platform - with PCI Express graphics.
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| hardware and software has been
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| | That may be a bit of wishful thinking.
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| exceptionally consistent over the years,
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| | New features included by apple
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| providing an ease of use that Mac users
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| | There are new RAW adjustment controls in
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| have enjoyed. With a Windows emulator
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| | the Adjustments Inspector and Adjustments
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| such as Virtual PC, Macs can also run
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| | HUD that improves the quality of RAW
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| Windows and DOS applications. Since the
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| | decodes via custom tuning of parameters.
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| mid 1980s, it has been essentially a Mac
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| | Most noticeably, you can control contrast
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| vs. PC world for personal computers, with
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| | (using the new Boost tool) and sharpness,
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| Linux-based PCs gaining ground after the
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| | as well as color noise reduction from the
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| millennium.
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| | RAW decoder.
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| Mac mini: -
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| | Apple gave us a new Color Meter tool that
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| The more recently announced Apple's Mac
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| | quickly and easily samples any area of an
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| mini has been turning some heads, even in
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| | image for RGB, CMYK, or LAB color values.
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| the PC world. If the iMac G5 is basically
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| | You can use this as a stand-alone tool or
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| a 1U server attached to a monitor, the
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| | as part of Aperture's Loupe tool.
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| Mac mini is basically a reorganized
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| | Photoshop users who like to sample
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| laptop without a monitor The Mac mini is
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| | specific color ranges will feel right at
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| especially relevant to this article
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| | home in Aperture due to this new tool.
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| because a lot of the discussions about
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| | For those who never felt comfortable with
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| performance with regards to Apple's
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| | Aperture's printing parameters, the new
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| PowerBook will apply directly to the Mac
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| | version has updated image resolution
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| mini, as the two platforms are very
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| | controls. You can specify output
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| similarly configured.
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| | resolution in dots per inch (dpi) when
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| OS X Tiger: -
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| | exporting images or sending images to an
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| The more I read about OS X Tiger, the
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| | external editor and Aperture 1.1 has
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| more interested I become. The two main
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| | increased the maximum size of images
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| features that draw me to the update are
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| | displayed in the Browser. You can resize
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| Apple's system-wide, fully indexed search
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| | the display of images in the Browser up
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| engine, called Spotlight, as well as the
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| | to a maximum of 512 pixels in height or
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| fact that in Tiger, every single pixel on
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| | width.
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| the screen will actually be rendered by
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| | There is an attractive feature included
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| the graphics card. For the most part, in
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| | by apple that is Universal Compatibility
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| OS X Panther, all of the rendering work
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| | that means Aperture 1.1 runs natively on
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| is done by the CPU, with some GPU
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| | both Intel-based and PowerPC-based
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| accelerated compositing occurring. In
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| | Macintosh computers. I tested it on both
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| Tiger, everything is done through the
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| | an Apple G5 Dual Core PowerMac with four
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| pixel pipelines of your GPU, increasing
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| | gigs of RAM and a new Mac Book Pro 2GHz
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| the dependency on a graphics card with
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| | model with two gigs of RAM. I've seen
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| fast memory access, as well as increasing
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| | Aperture run on a PowerBook, and there's
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| the flexibility of some of the effects
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| | no denying that it runs much quicker on
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| that you're able to do in the OS itself.
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| | the Mac Book Pro. I've seen Aperture run
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| Given Tiger's reliance on very high GPU
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| | on a PowerBook, and there's no denying
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| performance, I would almost expect Apple
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| | that it runs much quicker on the Mac Book
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| to celebrate its release with a new G5
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| | Pro.
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