I hope I am not stepping on anyones toes but do people with a mac use PM instead of iPhoto or as well as, what does PM do that iPhoto doesn't do?
There a lot of Photo Mechanic users who use Photo Mechanic on a Mac. If there weren't, we wouldn't be in business.
Photo Mechanic is highly regarded in the professional photojournalist and sports photography communities for its speed and versatility. It helps them get the job done under tight deadlines.
Photo Mechanic is the hub of their workflow. It is the beginning (downloading from the card via Ingest), the middle (previewing, captioning, keywording, renaming, cropping, launching photos into external editor applications, etc.) and the end (FTP upload to a server.)
Photo Mechanic doesn't do everything for everyone, but what it does do it does well and very efficiently.
I am not an iPhoto user so I cannot compare and contrast the features, but I am sure that both programs can do things that the other cannot do. You can demo Photo Mechanic for 20 days so you can try it out for yourself.
-Kirk