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ditto on reasons for bringing picasa to the mac.
I just recently switched to a mac, and while I love everything about it, iphoto is lacking. Some can argue that it may in fact be "more powerful" and such, but picasa just has too many other advantages.
It's faster hands down. I've got less photos in iphoto then I had on my other laptop (the laptop crashed, so I lost many of them), and iphoto is just too slow. It's not the computer either - this the latest G4 powerbook (before the intel changes) and is at least 2x what my previous laptop was. (Yes, I've done all the actual research on processor comparisons too.)
Keyword and search system was far superior. I've used countless scripts in iphoto, and they still cannot compete with the simplicity of picasa in this area - picasa didn't need scripts to attempt competition with iphoto.
Storage system. I see very few advantages to iphotos storage system. While it is nice that I only need to worry about the keywords, or "album" labels in iphoto, it's one royal pain in the rear to easily access the files if I wanted to send a group of them to someone else (or do ANYTHING with them for that matter), WITHOUT any exporting. Also, I've never had more problems with duplicate photos EVER. I've used scripts to eliminate, iphotodiet, and several others. I shouldn't need to use them! iphoto should be intelligent enough!
PLEASE - GOOGLE HEAR OUR PLEA, OR SOMEONE WITH THE CODING ABILITY PORT THIS OVER FOR US!
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