Aperture on MacBook Air

This past week I visited family, knowing that I needed to do some major clean up to my Aperture library I went through the painstaking process of removing previews and consolidating the projects I wanted to use and transferring a new library to my MacBook Air, which I was taking with me (I will note, when I normally travel it’s for work so I don’t get to take Aperture or my Air with me which is why this was sort of foreign to me). Needless to say that who process took a few hours.

When I finally sat down over the Thanksgiving holiday to work on some photos my Air basically ground to a halt running Aperture, appearing to be a CPU limitation. I knew from past experiences that my MacBook Air doesn’t run aperture very well, I’ve primarily used it to dump and do triage on photos in a single project as I’m traveling. Running a library that was 40gb+ didn’t happen. Each action took forever. Needless to say I am a little disappointed I spent the time getting everything running to only fail, but I guess I should have seen this coming.

No, I’m not going to run out and buy a MacBook Pro, as much as I would like too, but now I need to figure out someway to work on photos while I am traveling with my Air. Any suggestions?

The peace & quiet of air travel

I don’t travel as much as some, but I do travel more than many people. For as much trouble as it is, I really do find that my time on a plane, disconnected from the world, is quite productive. Even with just my iPhone I’m able to get through masses of email. Google reader and the like. Only problem are the occasional typos which increase with each hour in the air (going on 5 now). However, it does sucks when you touch down and sync up. Oh well. Well it’s not so bad at 1am.

Random travel photos

I end up traveling a fair amount for work and occasionally end up with loose photos ranging from the one off shot to mobile uploads. These shots documenting the rare glimmer of something-or-another are forever immortalized in this flickr set. Click the image below for the ever updating captures.

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