Photos does look great, but Apple decided to completely ignore iPhoto while making this. iPhoto has so many bugs and problems and there is nothing I can do but sit and wait for them to release Photos.
iPhoto is so slow, I hope they fixed that ! Even on my SSD i7 mbp with 16GB of RAM I'm surprised. My photo collection isn't that huge as most of the stuff is stored outside but it really lacks the snapiness it should have.
If you don't mind me asking, how big is your iPhoto Library? With large file sizes these days, it takes no time to generate a huge iPhoto Library. Also, when you add a photo into iPhoto Library, it automatically generates more copies of the file with smaller sizes, thus increasing the size of iPhoto Library very fast.
I strongly recommend using "iPhoto Buddy' (free) or "iPhoto Library Manager" ($20) to divide iPhoto library into smaller libraries.
Also, I read somewhere that not all SSDs in Apple laptops are the same. Some are from samsung and some are from Toshiba. And supposedly Toshiba ones are much slower than Samsung ones and someone claimed it was barely faster than a mechanical HD.
But anyhow, the point is you should at least use "iPhoto Buddy' (free) or "iPhoto Library Manager" ($20). Or even better, I recommend using the howto I posted in this same thread.
I like the looks, too! Looks to me as if iPhoto will eventually be replaced by Photos (though I believe I remember the announcement was that it would not?) as it wraps most of its functionality and has a nicer look. Maybe makes sense to have Photos (lifestyle) and Aperture (professional) as two apps with a clear focus for each one.
I'm just missing some statement on how the performance is, especially since we all have like several hundred GBs or even TBs worth of pictures nowadays. It's only a preview with screenshots though...
> iPhoto was often criticized for choking on large image libraries, but Apple says it built Photos to handle large and growing photo libraries, since people are taking so many more photos than they used to before. From our experience, it seems that Apple's efforts have paid off: the new Photos app effortlessly scrolls through thousands of photos, [...]
