Despite being a professed Apple Fan Boy I use Adobe Lightroom because it works better for ME. And for those of you who read my "Should I Switch to Apple?" post, yes this is another "It Depends" answer. Aperture and Lightroom are both pretty well made and getting better with each version (Yes, I have used them all). I settled on Lightroom because I prefer the way it handles my file structure and the user interface, but those are really personal preferences more than any performance metric.
Seriously, if you think you can read through blog posts and reviews to divine the answer to this one you are wrong. Sometimes you just need to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty to find the answer yourself. This is one of those times. And you are in luck, because last I checked they both offer free trial downloads:
As a photographer and geek with Apple hardware, it's a question I get all the time. And a question that may be on the increase with the release of the iPad (Nope, I don't have one yet). Perhaps after over two decades of being a geek, half of which spent as an Apple user, I might be qualified to help you answer. I am a fan of Apple most of the time, so my answer might surprise you, which is, "It depends."
I started contemplating the switch to Apple when they announced OS X around 1999; you know, about the same time the world was supposed to end. Yes, I was an early adopter of OS X. And yes, it was as painful as the transition from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95 (anyone remember tweaking TSR's? - Uhg). I had been around Commodore's, Amiga's, Epson's, Panasonic's (yeah, they made PC's prior to a bit of protectionist policy change in the Reagan years), Micron, Quantex, Dell...you get the point. In fact, I was so unimpressed with any of them I started building my own. Anyway, the switch started making sense for me when Canon released the D30 in 2000 and Apple released OS X 10.0 in 2001. I was tired of building PC's and wanted to use computers for something productive like digital imaging. So, I made the switch and never looked back (well, at least after third party OS X drivers finally came around). Now I have an iPhone, a MacBook, and an iMac, and they're all synced via MobileMe and backed up via Time Machine - I have drank of the apple flavored kool-aid and I like it. But to your question...
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