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iLife '04 Shipping
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iLife shipped today
After complaining earlier in this thread that iLife was scheduled to ship on 29.Jan I got a notification today that it has already shipped. So - no reason to complain as a german customer.
Even so I am really looking forward for finally getting it I am a little bit concerned about the usability on a 900MHz G3 w/ 256MB . Hope that it works fine. Will see.
Cheers
After complaining earlier in this thread that iLife was scheduled to ship on 29.Jan I got a notification today that it has already shipped. So - no reason to complain as a german customer.
Even so I am really looking forward for finally getting it I am a little bit concerned about the usability on a 900MHz G3 w/ 256MB . Hope that it works fine. Will see.
Cheers
Dissapointed but oh well.
I went into the Clarendon VA Apple Store to buy iLife.
The only had family packs - derrr.
I went into the Clarendon VA Apple Store to buy iLife.
The only had family packs - derrr.
Re: iLife shipped today
Only thing I'd suggest is upgrading your memory. I'm running it on an iMac G4 800MHz and haven't had any issues.
Would think the extra MHz might offset the G4 compared to what I have, who knows.
Only thing I'd suggest is upgrading your memory. I'm running it on an iMac G4 800MHz and haven't had any issues.
Would think the extra MHz might offset the G4 compared to what I have, who knows.
Re: iLife shipped today
The only real noticable difference is the "organize" tab...it seems they signifigantly degraded the resolution of the "preview" pics. Guess that's where the scrolling speed comes from? (marginal at best on a G3).
Again, hype and disappointment. Sigh.
Don't hold your breath. It works OK on my G3 900 w/640 RAM. The beachball is still a frequent visitor, and it's still sluggish. I don't know what all this "wiz-bang" speed is all about, but I suspect it applies to G4 and above??
The only real noticable difference is the "organize" tab...it seems they signifigantly degraded the resolution of the "preview" pics. Guess that's where the scrolling speed comes from? (marginal at best on a G3).
Again, hype and disappointment. Sigh.
Re: Re: iLife shipped today
one hundred mhz doesnt offset altivec and the different sized caches. the G3 is still at a severe disadvantage, especially in this type of use. apps like garageband are going to be extremely math-intensive on a cpu.
one hundred mhz doesnt offset altivec and the different sized caches. the G3 is still at a severe disadvantage, especially in this type of use. apps like garageband are going to be extremely math-intensive on a cpu.
if i remember correctly, isnt 256 the min requirement just for OSX?
when i got my PB, i couldnt even use 3 or 4 layers in Flash before it would lock down.
i've got 768 now, and garageband works fine. records and plays without a hitch, but doesnt look quite as pretty as Steve's machine at keynote... hehehe. the animation of the timeline is kinda choppy, so you cant rely on watching the playhead for your timing while playing. also the waveform at the bottom doesnt show up until its already been playing, but once it shows up its smooth as butter.
when i got my PB, i couldnt even use 3 or 4 layers in Flash before it would lock down.
i've got 768 now, and garageband works fine. records and plays without a hitch, but doesnt look quite as pretty as Steve's machine at keynote... hehehe. the animation of the timeline is kinda choppy, so you cant rely on watching the playhead for your timing while playing. also the waveform at the bottom doesnt show up until its already been playing, but once it shows up its smooth as butter.
I haven't received my version of iLife yet (I'm out of town--just my luck), but I wanted to ask a question of those of you who have already received this software. Once and for all, does iDVD burn DVDs onto SuperDrives only, or will it burn onto other brands of DVD drives as well (recognizing them as SuperDrives)? Inquiring minds--more specifically, those without SuperDrives--want to know!
Hi iJon,
isn't there any chance to get iDVD running on a external superdrive ? Some kind of hack ? Is it possible to use it together with Toast ?
Cheers
I'm pretty sure that with iDVD 04 you can design the project then use Toast to burn it onto your non-SuperDrive DVD Drive. I'm not positive however.
iPhoto - Speed and Bugs
With expectations high, I went to the local Apple shop to get the iLife 04. My primary concern was getting a version of iPhoto that works with my 8000+ pictures amounting to about 200GB. Here are some of my findings:
SUMMARY: iPhoto 4 seems usable with large photo collections, which version 3 wasn't. The program is still buggy and moody, but if you don't push the boundaries (or some of the new functions such as the smartfolders) things will work fine. Would I use iPhoto if I were a professional photographer? Probably not. iPhoto makes sense for people who like their collection to be shared with their TIVO, other PCs, web, etc. It is simply not robust enough to recommend to professionals.
1. SPEED is vastly improved... However, you may still need to use a few tricks, such as erasing the iPhoto cache and the iphoto.plist file in your personal library folder if you feel things are sluggish. Also, using uncompressed TIFF instead of JPEG seems to help. Browsing within a certain year as opposed to the entire library of photo boosts speed. Nevertheless, trying to delete a film roll with 100 photos will still bring the beach ball up. This should have nothing to do with the numbers or size of the photos as you are only telling iPhoto to delete the photos, not trying to view all of them.
2. IMPORTING crashes on corrupted files. Say you want to import your entire photo collection, and your last file is corrupted, then you'd better start all over again as iPhoto tends to crash and ignore every import. And the photos you tried to import will be stuck in your folder as a nice present... You can either make a copy of the iPhoto Library as it was before the import and try all over again, or hold down OPTION+APPLE when starting iPhoto. This command will rebuild the library. I don't know how these two options compare in terms of effectiveness, though the rebuilding of the library has worked fine for me.
A nice functionality (it may have been in iPhoto also previously) is the ability to import .NEF photos (Nikon's RAW format). The photo is imported as a low resolution .JPEG, but the .NEF is included in the iPhoto Library. What this means is that you will only be able to view (and print?) low resolution, but if you double click on the photo you will launch your Nikon reader or the like. Not perfect, but still pretty good.
With expectations high, I went to the local Apple shop to get the iLife 04. My primary concern was getting a version of iPhoto that works with my 8000+ pictures amounting to about 200GB. Here are some of my findings:
SUMMARY: iPhoto 4 seems usable with large photo collections, which version 3 wasn't. The program is still buggy and moody, but if you don't push the boundaries (or some of the new functions such as the smartfolders) things will work fine. Would I use iPhoto if I were a professional photographer? Probably not. iPhoto makes sense for people who like their collection to be shared with their TIVO, other PCs, web, etc. It is simply not robust enough to recommend to professionals.
1. SPEED is vastly improved... However, you may still need to use a few tricks, such as erasing the iPhoto cache and the iphoto.plist file in your personal library folder if you feel things are sluggish. Also, using uncompressed TIFF instead of JPEG seems to help. Browsing within a certain year as opposed to the entire library of photo boosts speed. Nevertheless, trying to delete a film roll with 100 photos will still bring the beach ball up. This should have nothing to do with the numbers or size of the photos as you are only telling iPhoto to delete the photos, not trying to view all of them.
2. IMPORTING crashes on corrupted files. Say you want to import your entire photo collection, and your last file is corrupted, then you'd better start all over again as iPhoto tends to crash and ignore every import. And the photos you tried to import will be stuck in your folder as a nice present... You can either make a copy of the iPhoto Library as it was before the import and try all over again, or hold down OPTION+APPLE when starting iPhoto. This command will rebuild the library. I don't know how these two options compare in terms of effectiveness, though the rebuilding of the library has worked fine for me.
A nice functionality (it may have been in iPhoto also previously) is the ability to import .NEF photos (Nikon's RAW format). The photo is imported as a low resolution .JPEG, but the .NEF is included in the iPhoto Library. What this means is that you will only be able to view (and print?) low resolution, but if you double click on the photo you will launch your Nikon reader or the like. Not perfect, but still pretty good.