Is it just me, or is iPhoto getting seriously old. First off all, it doesn’t support RAW yet, so the CR2 files from my Canon EOS 20D are easily getting seriously disorganized. Seconldy, speed… sorry Apple, I’ve seen iPhoto 4 with 7000 1 mb pictures with the odd 40mb picture in it, it’s just not up to par on your iMac 1Ghz/1GB which should be more than good enough to handle this. How hard is it to cache those thumbnails? Waiting minutes every time you move the scrollbar just doesn’t work. So I’ve stuck with iPhoto 2 which is equally slow. Features of iPhoto 4 I’d like of course, and I’m so looking forward to hearing news of what Apple has in plan for the next revision (will that be iPhoto 6, 8 or 16, btw? ;-) ) as iPhoto 2 doesn’t work well for more than a gb of photos at a time or so.

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