Tony L
Administrator
You can download a 30 day trial of Lightroom 5 I have a Mac and I'm an Apple fan but have never used Aperture. It was a conscious decision. I'm sure Aperture is great but Apple do seem to have taken their eye off the ball and Adobe have stolen a march on them with Lightroom. Especially in the past eighteen months. But either will do the basic stuff well, including pop!
The decider for me was at the time I bought Aperture was under half the price of Lightroom as Apple had just slashed the price after moving it to an App Store only download. I think this is still the case. After a little learning curve I've been very happy with it.