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iLife '05 and iWork '05

okay. From the 5 great products introduced at MWSF, I have ordered iLife 05. The new iPhoto looks quite impressive with the new editing tools. The new iMovie looks great with it's new magic iMovie (the last project I edited actually could have been done completely with it). As for new iDVD, I only used iDVD 4 once, we'll see how 5 does. Garageband 2 . . . I want to get some friends of mine to hook their guitars to my mac and go nuts while I alter their stuff.

As for iWork, I like where pages is going and if I had a notebook Keynote would go to great use. Y go into class with a diskette (yes floppy disk) and give some lame Powerpoint when I can show off a keynote pres with better effects. Pages, I'll wait for version 2, see what they pick up that they left off. Also an introduction of cells would be nice. I'll tell you all next year how nice iWork is. (A instant war on M$ Office is bad, but to slowly build up until you have something that can compete, go for it. After all this is no rush.)

I would also like to say iLife's price hike is a bit disapointing, but still worth it.
 
BWhaler said:
I know it has been claimed by a poster here, but it is incorrect.

Pages has a spell checker. I have used Pages, so I am absolutely certain of it.

Plus, think about it: OSX has a system wide spell check, and Apple is very smart at giving customers what they need. Why would Apple do something like not include a spell checker in a word processor? Not even Microsoft is that stupid.
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It does have a spell checker 100%

Apple.com said:
Check spelling with the built-in spell checker
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Right hand side of page on: http://www.apple.com/iwork/pages/templates.html
 
BWhaler said:
I know it has been claimed by a poster here, but it is incorrect.

Pages has a spell checker. I have used Pages, so I am absolutely certain of it.

Plus, think about it: OSX has a system wide spell check, and Apple is very smart at giving customers what they need. Why would Apple do something like not include a spell checker in a word processor? Not even Microsoft is that stupid.
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good. good. it just seemed such a crazy suggestion that it might actually be true! :eek:
 
Trowaman said:
okay. From the 5 great products introduced at MWSF, I have ordered iLife 05. The new iPhoto looks quite impressive with the new editing tools. The new iMovie looks great with it's new magic iMovie (the last project I edited actually could have been done completely with it). As for new iDVD, I only used iDVD 4 once, we'll see how 5 does. Garageband 2 . . . I want to get some friends of mine to hook their guitars to my mac and go nuts while I alter their stuff.

I would also like to say iLife's price hike is a bit disappointing, but still worth it.
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It is unusual for Apple to increase prices on its product. As long as Apple is using the higher price for R&D to improve the next version, then we should not complain. Since this is such a popular group of software, most won't mind that much. Some of the increase should also be used in the next version of iWork, so that it will be more competitive.
 
I was going to order iLife the other day with the edu discount and it was $49.00.

Today it is $59.00 - figured I'd order it before it went up again. So here I want for my Shuffle and my iLife! :D

Just wouldn't find a use for iWork - yet.
 
iLife '05 was always $59 for edu customers (I checked on Tuesday). You may have been thinking of iWork Academic which is $49.

The bookstore at my University is selling Office 2004 Teacher/Student for $149 but they also have Office 2004 Standard on sale for $75. Not sure how that works. I'm still on Office X and don't really feel a need to upgrade. I would like to get iWork though to check out Pages.
 
Ordered iLife '05 today and can't wait to get it. Is it just me or is anyone else excited about the iPhoto Picture Book upgrades. I mean for $10 you can put together a 20 page professionally bound book of your photos with different layouts and comments. Amazing.
 
DanTheMan said:
Ordered iLife '05 today and can't wait to get it. Is it just me or is anyone else excited about the iPhoto Picture Book upgrades. I mean for $10 you can put together a 20 page professionally bound book of your photos with different layouts and comments. Amazing.
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Do you know if Picture Books are available in only the US. That's the current limitation that I know of.
 
evilernie said:
I got iLife 04 for Christmas, and I just registered it like two weeks ago. Now I have to pay full price for an upgrade? Man that's annoying. :mad:

And wtf, no Powerbook updates AT ALL?
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that sucks, I have the same problem :( i wonder if apple will be giving upgrades?
 
franckfort said:
that sucks, I have the same problem :( i wonder if apple will be giving upgrades?
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Sucks eh? I bought Quicktime Pro 5 the day before QT Pro 6 came out, and had to pay full price.

I would really appreciate it if Apple had variable pricing depending on what you already own. I had iLife, upgraded to 04, and will upgrade to 05. It would be great if Apple priced it differently to upgrade from 04 than from the earlier version (which was free right?). Same with OSX etc. Maybe one day eh.
 
3Memos said:
Do you know if Picture Books are available in only the US. That's the current limitation that I know of.
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They are also availible in:

Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom
 
Damien said:
They are also availible in:

Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom
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Have you ordered any Picture books? I am curious about print quality.
 
JFreak said:
very true. i have no problem if apple releases a spreadsheet clearly better than excel, but i just have to say apple is in front of a GREAT challenge in making that great spreadsheet that makes excel look bad.
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Hi JFreak,

You seem to have great familiarity with Excel. I noticed a while back that Apple was saying one great use for Filemaker was to import your Excel spreadsheets.

I've never done that myself - have you ever looked into that?

I'm just wondering if they do a good job of it or not? Do they have a basis for a spreadsheet in a cut-down Filemaker?
 
Has anynoe covered this?

I want Pages so I can finally ditch ALL Microsoft off my digitally pure G5.

It does have a spell checker but as a professional author I need word count which I don't see mentioned. Anyone know if it does? Aren't there some 3rd party word counters? I'd be prepared to use one just to get away from MS.
 
motulist said:
I don't know why it isn't expressed more obviously, but Pages exports HTML! This is HUGE. I know tons of less technically (sp?) inclined people who have been looking for an easy way to design a website that wasn't too expensive and they've been waitng for a long time for something like this. I have a friend that I know for certain will buy this once he hears about it.

Awesome.
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Uh-oh, I smell another wave of new websites that aren't W3C-compliant and still use a table-based layout. :rolleyes:
 
Peel said:
In his keynote yesterday, Steve said of iDVD, "We're supporting all of the DVD formats now, if you have a drive that supports them." Of course that would imply +R DL as well.

The website does comfirm that using iDVD 05 will enable +R/RW in all currently shipping SuperDrives, including the iMacG5s.
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yeah but that doesn't answer anything about "non-Apple" "SuperDrives".

What about third-party external drives? Will iDVD support Dual-Layer's longer time capacity?
 
JFreak said:
excel is sold as a standalone app. iworks + excel however costs more than iworks alone, so that in mind it would be nice for many if apple indeed released a spreadsheet app.

for many average joes the only reason for using excel would be keeping their finances in order. it is however a great deal better alternative for apple to release a simple-to-use iFinance (or whatever) for that goal, rather than making an excel killer that should fulfill so many more needs than that.
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My prediction: an Apple application called "Budget".
 
JFreak said:
excel has its limitations, too. ever tried to have more than 65536 rows in an excel worksheet? not possible. that has driven me crazy many more times than that ;)
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Yeah, 16-bit is so outdated...
 
Yvan256 said:
Uh-oh, I smell another wave of new websites that aren't W3C-compliant and still use a table-based layout. :rolleyes:
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If we want an application to allow an identical printed and web document it's a far different challenge to offering a web 'template' with limited layout options. I'd rather have that option to restrict myself to create clean web pages.

Same goes for the LaTeX rumour (someone said they heard it supported it) - it's one thing to convert a document to TeX (and in doing so lose some formatting etc). It's another to restrict all of your formatting options to those availabe in TeX and go from there.

Anyone know if the templates chosen for web page etc can actually restrict some formatting options, so that it's more compliant AND web-wysiwyg?
 
weldon said:
iLife '05 was always $59 for edu customers (I checked on Tuesday). You may have been thinking of iWork Academic which is $49.

The bookstore at my University is selling Office 2004 Teacher/Student for $149 but they also have Office 2004 Standard on sale for $75. Not sure how that works. I'm still on Office X and don't really feel a need to upgrade. I would like to get iWork though to check out Pages.
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Nah, on Monday after the keynote, it was $49.00, which is what I remember paying last year for '04.

No big deal, it's still a bargain.

Reorganizing all of my 7,000 images over the next week waiting for iPhoto 5. :cool:
 
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