Ted Leung likes Aperture

Ted Leung, currently working with the Open Source Applications Foundation, is apparently all a-twitter for Aperture. Who is Ted, and why should you care? Never mind his amazing work on the Apache XML Project, his clever use of Chandler, or his book on XML. Ted worked on the Newton! Which, of course, makes him a photography expert.

Actually Ted never bothered looking at Final Cut Pro because he's "not a video guy." But he is a budding photo guy, and apparently Aperture looks pretty appealing to him. He's currently using iPhoto, but managing very large sets of photos and applying any kind of automated image processing is just painful.

The stumbling block would be Aperture's system requirements. Sure, his PowerBook meets the absolute bare, rock-bottom minimum... Golly, it almost looks like those laptops were slapped in there almost begrudgingly... Anyway, Aperture really wants to live on a dual 2 GHz G5 with 2GB of RAM. I second C.K.'s request for Aperture Express (it'd be called Lite if it were a PC app, BTW).