Question:  How often should or  does your Apperture just quit on you???   

I can’t remember the last time Aperture has outright crashed. Sure, an occasional slowdown or maybe a random spinning beach ball … but I can’t ever recall a flat out crash or kernel panic under routine use. There was a version a year or so back that caused some issues right out of the box when it updated … but a trash and delete of all app and preference files, then re-install made it all better.

I am running a 2011 21.5” with 12GB RAM with i5 2.5 Ghz and AMD Radeon HD 6750M 512 MB graphics card … hardly cutting edge in the line.

I routinely have Aperture, Photoshop, FCP X, Motion 5, Safari, Mail and Transmit all running at the same time. I sometimes see a slowdown in app switching waiting for RAM to swap out … but no crashes.

I do think there are lemon models/machines. I have an older MBP (2006 Core 2 Duo, 2.4 Ghz. 4GB RAM that I use as backup for road work … that particular unit was trouble from the start … seems it received one of the faulty NVIDIA graphics card and had all kinds of heat and fan issues … it wash’t until Apple replaced the video card, mother board, HD, power exchanger that it ran efficiently without overheating (all under warranty) … since I popped in an SSD … it works rather well. 

This sounds more like a hardware issue - perhaps bad RAM (had that happen once).  Run a hardware diagnostics and see what comes up.

David:

My aperture, latest edition, on an older machine than yours without the same power –rarely crashes. That is, just plain crashes. Rarely.

Best.

David,

Not sure I fully get it. Are you worry after only 1 crash? 

I will say that I get crashes every 2 months roughly. Enough that I remember but not enough to make me worry :) 

J.

I have not had a crash on either of my iMacs (24 and 21.5) with the exception of a RAM failure causing a kernel panic. Aperture, however, did crash one time in the last two years and that was just recently…have no clue why but it has not happened since. Thank goodness!