iPhoto is a Dog, So Stop the Kudos!

Ugh, I had to use iPhoto on my wife’s Mac mini PPC today and even though it only has 996 pictures in the library, it still took nearly five minutes — yes, five! — before I could do anything with it. Granted, it’s last years model running last years version, but still, should it take about five minutes to open a library that is less than a thousand with 512 MB or RAM and nothing else is open! I remember the promise Steve Jobs made with iTunes in 4.0 and how it was better but here I sit in front of 5.x and it’s a freakin’ dog!

Now that I have the new Intel dual-core chip, I figure I’ll have better luck with iPhoto, especially since it’s a new faster touted version. Well, it is faster, but I do still get beach balls and it is still slow enough that I just don’t bother with it any more.

It’s sad, because the other iLife and OS X core is so tied into it. But with it’s speed issues, it’s just not worth it in the end. What makes it the worst is everything else about iPhoto is so good. It’s ease of use, layout, and integration is just so awesome. If Apple could only resolve the speed issue. For real!

Me, I’ll still with Picture Arena for now. Hopefully IOSpirit will be able to mimic the iPhoto connection into other applications so I can then pull off it’s albums instead of having to open iPhoto, watch a beach ball, tap my fingers, create an album, watch a beach ball, copy pictures in (and thus take up more room from my hard drive), watch a beach ball, see it import into the album, and then close iTunes, and yes, watch a beach ball. I thought reflections of the beach bring good feelings to mind. :)

I really hope iPhoto 7 is way better or I might have to punch Steve Jobs in the face at Macworld if he tells us one more time that it’s better. ;)

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