


Needless to add, Aperture will not even run on this machine which uses a GeoForce FX5200 graphics card. The screen is superior too – far less color change occurs as you move your head. We keep that old Mac around in the living room primarily as an email and Internet browser for guests. This is the elegant ‘screen-on-a-stick’ design after which the iMac’s ergonomics went downhill – the poorly thought out stands on the current crop (G5 and later) need a couple of thick books to raise the screen to the right height. Given the great speed and smoothness of Lightroom on my MacBook (1.83gHz Intel Core2Duo, 2gB RAM, Intel GMA950 graphics card, OS 10.4.11) I thought it might be fun to try it on my old iMac (1.25gHz IBM G4 PPC, 1gB of RAM, OS 10.4.11). You can read about how to migrate from Aperture to Lightroom here.
