premshree

I think I’ll buy Aperture
Try Lightroom if you can. I used Aperture for some time but then switched to Lightroom (although I'm generally biased towards Apple software). I believe both have trial versions available. Play around with both and then buy whatever suits your need.

I had tried Lightroom on my Powerbook -- I quite liked it, except it crawled. Should try on the MBP. Would you say you're happy with Lightroom?

It's funny how both cost USD 299. :-)

Huh! One of the prime reasons I gave up on Aperture was because it crawled on my MacBook Pro (1st Gen; 2 GHz Core Duo; 1.5GB RAM) once the number of photos increased significantly. In one of Flickr discussions, someone suggested to me that the performance improved significantly after 1.5 update. It was too little, too late by then. I moved on to Lightroom. And yes, I'm very happy with it as of today.

And as far as price goes and if I remember correctly, both had the same "introduction price" of $199 as well when they were launched :-)

Aperture (whatever the latest is) did perform bad on my box too (2 GHz Core 2 Duo; 2 GB RAM) -- but then again I had iPhoto open too. :-) I'll give Lightroom a spin. Thanks!

I face the same problem.. i always shoot raw and when I process pictures using iPhoto they look great.... but when I look at the same images using firefox in a windows machine, they look dark ....

Aperturn doesnt work on Macbooks :( it works only on Pro... Any suggestions to fix it ?

Aperture does run on MacBooks. Just that it's not officially supported. Read this discussion for more info.

To get pics that look reasonable on other browsers you need to "match" to sRGB space. You can do this in Preview.app (Tools -> Match to Profile...) or if you're more of a command-line hacker you can use sips, which comes preinstalled with OS X:

sips -m "/System/Library/Colorsync/Profiles/sRGB Profile.icc" --out foo_srgb.jpg foo_adobe_rgb.jpg