saeder Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 (I posted this in hardware yesterday, but realized it's probably more appropriate in here) I'm looking at picking up a laptop and was wondering if anyone had any success running Aperture on one. I know it's got a list of hardware restrictions and since I've started to use it alot on my desktop I can't really go without it these days. Also I wasn't sure just how stringent those restrictions/requirements are ie: does it run, but dog slow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsod Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 i installed 1.1 on my laptop (it has CI and QE at 1280x800) and it opens with an error about not having a large enough display, but you can press ok and it loads fine... i dont really know how to use it too much but it seems to be somewhat repsonsive and fast.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saeder Posted September 17, 2006 Author Share Posted September 17, 2006 i installed 1.1 on my laptop (it has CI and QE at 1280x800) and it opens with an error about not having a large enough display, but you can press ok and it loads fine... i dont really know how to use it too much but it seems to be somewhat repsonsive and fast.. What kind of laptop are you running it on? (specs/hardware) And Aperture is meant as a "professional" digital photographer's tool. Course I don't think I've seen anything that handles digital photos as well as it can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsod Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 HP dv4000 Intel M 1.73Ghz 1GB ram gma900 with external monitor hack so CI and QE enabled, 1280x800 (it wants a minimum of 1280x854 so its not a huge difference) running 10.4.7 JaS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GBK.Xscape Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 if u are gonna buy a laptop then just buy a mac. it doesnt pay to buy windows and then go though all th problems of getting things to work. plus on a mac you can run windows natvie LEGALLY or use parallels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gurki Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 i installed 1.1 on my laptop (it has CI and QE at 1280x800) and it opens with an error about not having a large enough display, but you can press ok and it loads fine... i dont really know how to use it too much but it seems to be somewhat repsonsive and fast.. Ctrl-Click on the Aperture App > Click Show Package Contents Then open the Contents folder, drag info.plist out and open it with Text Edit, scroll down to the bottom and look for: <key>RKMinimumDisplayPixelHeight</key> <integer>854</integer> <key>RKMinimumDisplayPixelWidth</key> <integer>1280</integer> Simply change 1280/854 to whatever you want, save it and add it back to the package. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Samarane Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 Where did you get the 1.1 version, I culdnt find it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GmanBen Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 (edited) I was able to finally get aperture to run on JaS 10.4.8 on my laptop today. The only problem is that only Aperture 1.0 works. I applied the update to 1.5 and it just stopped working so I am reinstalling now and hopefully it will work again. For those wondering how I got it to work, well I'll write a detailed guide and added it to my osx86 install guide in the next week. In the mean time here is a quick summary: get Aperture 1.0 dmg and install it using Pacifist to the default location. Once done, go here and follow the instructions on post number 9 down the list (wrote by user named JZR), which will eliminate the hardware check that takes place not on the info.plist file but inside the application itself. After you do that go to the Aperture icon in Applications and right click/show package contents. Find the info.plist and open it on textedit and change the memory size from 1000 to something you have, like for example 100. Save the file and run Aperture, get a working s/n and forget about registration, ohh and start exploring the program, lol. Notice that in my laptop it runs very slow (not because of the program itself or osx86, but because I don't have the min reqs) and as I mentioned before forget about updating. My hardware specs are: Intel Centrino mobile 1.8GHz with SSE2 GMA900 with QE/CI enabled 512MB of Ram OSX 10.4.8 (JaS) Lastest updates Edited January 28, 2007 by GmanBen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmoalem Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 hi there - slightly off-topic but was wondering what is "gma900 with external monitor hack so CI and QE enabled" ? i have posted earlier question regarding running final cut pro which seems to require QE which isnt seem to be avilable on my onboard gma950 chipset (earlier fcp version installs but when trying to start it it syas that it need agp card) - wonder if this hack will do for final cut pro? any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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