You bought a macbook to arrive the DAY AFTER the keynote and now you're surprised something new was announced at MWSF?
Did you order a John McCain T-shirt on November 3, too?
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Apple Announces iLife '09
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You bought a macbook to arrive the DAY AFTER the keynote and now you're surprised something new was announced at MWSF?
Did you order a John McCain T-shirt on November 3, too?
That's right; they just lost me. I won't wait for a mini or a netbook. For 400$ I get a PC with 4gb, 1Tb hd and core 2. Install kubuntu or knoppix.
For another 400 I get a eee (if I only find a reseller!)
Anyway, my experience with Apple hardware has been less than memorable (so far none of the machines lasted more than 3yrs).
http://www.apple.com/ilife/iweb/
added widgets and a few other bells, little different interface but basically the same app.
I too was hoping for more in iWeb. Great app but navigating through a site built in iWeb uses waaaaaaay too much bandwidth...
my website built in Flash uses only 25% of the bandwidth that the same site built in iWeb used.
That's just not right. My MacBook Pro is not even 2 weeks old. Had I known this was coming, I could have waited 2 weeks to order it. They should go back 30 or 60 days to cover recent purchases. That would be no big deal to them. I don't mind paying the $9.95 to cover shipping.
Come on Apple. You can do better than that.
thud
that's the sound of:
a) a horrible "one more thing"
b) tony bennet closing out the keynote.
no mini? no iMac? no Mac pro? no snow leopard? i thought this was supposed to be about MACS?
that's the sound of:
a) a horrible "one more thing"
b) tony bennet closing out the keynote.
no mini? no iMac? no Mac pro? no snow leopard? i thought this was supposed to be about MACS?
Everyone needs to go check out the new iWeb. Being able to publish to different web addressed was at the top of my list and they listened. The new iLife looks great, I hope they release Snow Leopard soon, so I can get iLife and SL with a new 17" MBP.
I wonder if iPhoto faces works on animals, I have a lot of pictures of my dog and cat?
To the above poster, I think today means they will be holding a SL and hardware event in the next few weeks/months.
I wonder if iPhoto faces works on animals, I have a lot of pictures of my dog and cat?
To the above poster, I think today means they will be holding a SL and hardware event in the next few weeks/months.
I want to 'switch'. I want to run all Apple gear in my business. But as it stands, none of Apple's desktop offerings are a reasonable value (choices: outdated iMac or prohibitively expensive Mac Pro).
I have been waiting almost three months for Apple to announce a new iMac today or at least update the hardware in some way. A small part of me was hoping for a 'consumer level' mini tower, but I knew that was out of the question. An iMac update seemed like a sure thing. I was so sure it was going to happen that I even transferred all the necessary funds to my debit account to order all the new gear today.
I am in shock.
Thanks for the new software offerings, Apple. I guess I'll have to build hackintoshes to run it.
--SONET
I have been waiting almost three months for Apple to announce a new iMac today or at least update the hardware in some way. A small part of me was hoping for a 'consumer level' mini tower, but I knew that was out of the question. An iMac update seemed like a sure thing. I was so sure it was going to happen that I even transferred all the necessary funds to my debit account to order all the new gear today.
I am in shock.
Thanks for the new software offerings, Apple. I guess I'll have to build hackintoshes to run it.
--SONET
Don't worry, you won't be getting any drum lessons. Only guitar and piano are available according to the website.
Hmm, I felt that way about iLife '08. It may be the only version that I didn't buy separately from getting a new computer.
This, on the other hand, seems like a worthwhile upgrade with the new Faces and Places features in iPhoto. Just the other day I started the arduous task of going through my thousands of photos and tagging them with names of all the people in them. I think I'll hold off now until I can get a copy of '09.
Hopefully the places feature will allow you to tag individual photos with lat/lon (since none of my cameras have GPS). It's unclear from the Macworld (magazine) keynote article whether it will let you do that - the article only talks about events:
Ahh, but Apple's page seems to suggest individual photos:
Cool.
Facebook integration will be nice for the wife, but I'm too old for that stuff.
Im sad about GB 09. All they did was add lessons. Free lessons can be found anywhere on the internet, i was hoping for an actual upgrade to the software itself.
I'm quite... no... very disappointed at the iLife upgrade. Nothing really new, just a few bits of candy really. I was hoping iWeb would get a big update with some cool features.
I never get my hopes up with these kind of things as I know that all the hype distorts everything and we always seem underwhelmed but to be honest this one was pretty lame.
All I wanted was a good update to iLife and a new MacPro. I won't be buying iLife because its not worth the effort of buying it never mind the price. It's a shame because I have the moolah ready for it right here.
I guess I'll go spend it on hookers and booze.. oh wait... forget the booze.
The choice of songs (The best is yet to come and I left my heart in San Francisco) and lack of SJ seems point to something in the near future. Maybe a special event in San Fran.
I never get my hopes up with these kind of things as I know that all the hype distorts everything and we always seem underwhelmed but to be honest this one was pretty lame.
All I wanted was a good update to iLife and a new MacPro. I won't be buying iLife because its not worth the effort of buying it never mind the price. It's a shame because I have the moolah ready for it right here.
I guess I'll go spend it on hookers and booze.. oh wait... forget the booze.
The choice of songs (The best is yet to come and I left my heart in San Francisco) and lack of SJ seems point to something in the near future. Maybe a special event in San Fran.
So you don't think iLife, iWork, and MacBook Pro announcements are about Macs?
You may not like the announcements and you may not see any value in them, but to say they were not about Macs is just plain stupid.
Yeah, just looked over the iWeb page -- and I barely see any differences. At least any MAJOR differences. iWeb needs a big overhaul like they did with iMovie (though hopefully for the better, unlike iMovie 08 which made some things worse). You're right -- iWeb sites seem bloated and can take too long to load compared to other sites. Plus, iWeb needs a LOT more functionality to be at all useful. It's shocking to me that it doesn't even have basic stuff like forms or menus. I'm not even asking for super-advanced stuff here, just a few more ways to make your iWeb site a little more interesting. I can't believe it will be at least another year until Apple MAYBE adds more functionality to it. By that time, your average website will be lightyears ahead of anything iWeb can do, making iWeb pages look like something from the Dark Ages. It's a real shame...
i see how it says basic lessons...i wonder if they'll make advance lessons available sometime soon
iWeb?
Where are all the iWeb enhancements?
I was really hoping for a major update with iWeb that would integrate with MobileMe.
Among other things lets just throw out the idea of having a webform that could be created in iWeb for emailing (PHP) or gathering data (SQL). Integration with Filemaker would be great as well.
Where are all the iWeb enhancements?
I was really hoping for a major update with iWeb that would integrate with MobileMe.
Among other things lets just throw out the idea of having a webform that could be created in iWeb for emailing (PHP) or gathering data (SQL). Integration with Filemaker would be great as well.
Yes I agree. I would like to support Apple because I used to love their products. However, they are not giving me what I want.
Linux on the other hand is not static, and is constantly improving. I will gladly sacrifice expensive music lessons (that won't make you any better), face recognition, batteries that can't be replaced, etc for a computer that get's **** done. And with all the money I save I'll buy a new drumset and practice it in real life. At the end of the day I will have gotten **** done and will be out drumming getting chics while you all are getting aroused by an $1800 17 inch waste of money.
I'm hoping the updated version of iMovie is an improvement over the last one ('08). My wife just bought a new video camera that only outputs in AVCHD, which doesn't play nice with iMovie '06 on my G5 desktop. Of course I'm still going to have to update to an Intel mac at some point...
Geez I just went to the Apple site. Very small updates to iWeb. And yes there is nothing new about iDVD from what I could tell.
Ok there is more. FTP for iWeb. About time.
And it has more widgets.
I hate to keep picking on you, but your posts makes no sense to me.
What exactly can't you get done with the current Apple products that you could have gotten done with the Apple products you "used to love"?
Again, I am not saying you have to like the updates or even be happy about them, but you keep saying the same stuff with no real details.
So my question to you is what real "stuff" can't you get done on a Mac that you can do on a Linux box?
And if your answer is going to be a something about no Mac mini upgrade or iMac upgrade or a mini-tower or no netbook, you still have not answered the question, which is, again, what stuff can't you get done?
Me too, I would have thought this would have been a gimme, maybe later in the year.
Blu-Ray
No new iDVD would make me think that Apple is even further away from supporting Blu-Ray than I did before the keynote.
I was hoping that something about snow leopard would be mentioned that proved blu-ray support would added at that point. It would make sense that iDVD would also get an upgrade with it to allow burning to Blu-Ray discs.
I want a 1080p option!
No new iDVD would make me think that Apple is even further away from supporting Blu-Ray than I did before the keynote.
I was hoping that something about snow leopard would be mentioned that proved blu-ray support would added at that point. It would make sense that iDVD would also get an upgrade with it to allow burning to Blu-Ray discs.
I want a 1080p option!
I just ordered iLife '09 with my education discount. It was £37.38 in total:
£30.00 (Item)
£4.88 (VAT)
£2.50 (Shipping)
Edit: Although remember, since it's going to ship in late January: