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| forquare1 wrote: iPhoto would (I presume) be used less, but the files are likely to be a lot bigger than a music file? Which would lead to longer loading times when flicking through photos which I think would be more noticeable... | |
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You’d think so, but my images are generally smaller. As a test I looked at the last pic I took, a 3072x2048 JPEG, which is 3.5MB. The last music I ripped (256 AAC), file sizes vary between 5 and 10MB.
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| rubicon wrote: I have my photo collection on an external FW drive and while there's no huge problem, iPhoto does seem to take longer to deal with things. However, I guess it's a case of which is likely to grow more rapidly: your photos or your music? My photo collection has vastly outgrown my music in a very short time, so despite any loss of performance from using an external drive, you may find you need to move your images "offsite" anyway. | |
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They seem to be growing at a similar rate so at some stage I’ll probably end up moving both of them.
Having thought about it some more and taking your thoughts into consideration, I think it’s Pickfords for the pics. I use iTunes for as much as 12 hours a day so I think that’s the decisive factor. Thanks.
PS. rubicon, do we know you by another name from the other place?
I thought I'd create a new persona for this venture. I'll still be spending the bulk of my time over at t'other place when it relaunches as there was a very strong Mac community there before and I'd like to support that. I'm sure I'll stick my head in here as well to see if I can offer any Mac insight to those who didn't make the jump back from beyond the red line. (They probably won't be very useful insights, but I'll give it a go.)