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As a Mac-er I prefer iPhoto, it's just always been there. I have seen Picassa in use and although I cant comment on speed the only major difference I picked up on was the use of funky sliders instead of folders. At the end of the day the functions are pretty much the same.
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did someone put that picasa ad on this page or is it just some incredible coincidence?

Edit: The ad changed, i guess it was an incredible coincidence! BTW, it was a google ad for a software program called "Picasa" a photo management program..
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iPhoto has always been quite slow for me, even on a 1.33 GHz G4, with 1.25 GB of RAM and a 7.2K hard drive. It's especially slow when loading up, don't ask me why, but it just is. Maybe one day, they'll sort it out.
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did someone put that picasa ad on this page or is it just some incredible coincidence?

Edit: The ad changed, i guess it was an incredible coincidence! BTW, it was a google ad for a software program called "Picasa" a photo management program..

Google ads pick up on key text on the page and shows ads relating to it. it saw picassa, searched for adverts, and displayed them.
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iPhoto has always been quite slow for me, even on a 1.33 GHz G4, with 1.25 GB of RAM and a 7.2K hard drive. It's especially slow when loading up, don't ask me why, but it just is. Maybe one day, they'll sort it out.
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LOL!! Looking at it again, I think he might have meant the RPM, since 7.2K would be 7200 RPM. Just a thought.
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Ok barryrueger et al. Can you give us some examples of what you couldn't figure out in iPhoto? I haven't used Picassa (yet -- but I'm downloading it to try on my Power Mac.), so I'm not criticizing your opinions.

To be honest, I finally decided to really trust my photo collection to iPhoto after, what, three years? So, I'm in the process of learning more about how it works.

One last question. Did you try out the (until today) latest version of iPhoto, in iLife '05?

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Lightbulb I too have moved from picasa and....

I am also looking for a picasa replacement. The main issue I have with iPhoto is that it want's to manage my picture folders. I hope I have missed something. The issue is I have 5+ years or so worth of digital pictures in folders that I have sorted by date. I don't want iPhoto to re-arrange them for me. I want the folder structure to remain the same and iPhoto to just scan them. This way I am not stuck to iPhoto if I choose to change in a year. Any thoughts?

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