 I Got Served.
Ok, here's the set up. I have a 2.16Ghz core duo Macbook Pro. My roommate has a 1.2Ghz Windows XP laptop. I watched him download pictures from his camera into Picasa, do color correction and remove red eye, run a couple of filters on a few, then save them and upload them to facebook. He beat the iPhoto workflow on my machine by about a factor of three. It appears to be more featureful to boot.
This weekend I am going to try to get Picasa working under Crossover (Wine for Mac.) Even under Wine, provided it works, it should blow the doors off of iPhoto. I'm currently running (Windows) ACDSee32 2.4 under Wine, and it cycles pictures faster than any native OS X app I've come across yet.
In short, I am not buying the argument that iPhoto is better for some things. Anyone who has more experience with both, go ahead and educate me. Just remember that I spent over 2700 dollars on a Macbook before anyone accuses me of hating Apple.
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