iLife '04: Don't waste your money - Page 4

lilbandit · #25 January 20th, 2004, 03:12 PM

I don't think Steve mentioned it during the Keynote (lost my connection a couple of times) but I'd like to give GarageBand a go in the classroom. A colleague recently showed me how he was using those cheap-o dj programmes in the classroom. They were terrible programmes, tacky and usually sparse on features but the children were able to put together some amazing stuff. The instruments were awful synthesizers and the loops were based on cheesy dance-inspired samples. Yet, put 3/4 children working together and the results were astonishing. I'm practically tone-deaf but even I realised what they could do with GarageBand. I'll definitely buy iLife 04 just to try it in the classroom! Might even serve to inspire one or two to take an interest in music!

orbstah · #26 January 20th, 2004, 06:15 PM

A lot of people hate pying money for apps they own already, but they seem to forget that most new macs come with ilife bundled. Anyhows Garageband rocks, as soon as i can get it to install and not crash

Soundstudio is faster but it still looks like a 9.x app

There is some nice additions to iDVD like the dvd map and the intro movies ( i got a 6 weks old baby so me dvd creations is about to rocket hehe). iPhoto is such a vast improvement, how we managed to live with the previous version i will never know. imovie is very cool to for making nice transitional effect for me photos.
To be brutally honest, most people enjoy the programs that apple release and couldnt live without them, so when Apple spend a lot of time updating and tweaking them and then ask us to pay for a disk, i feel annoyed that anyone could be argue with $50 dollars for what is essentially 5 apps that allow you to do everything you need toon your mac. Similar apps of this quality would cost you a fortune to buy on a PC.
iLife should be essential buying for every Apple owner.
Long Live Apple and Long Live OSX

karavite · #27 January 25th, 2004, 01:30 PM

I am ordering iLife today mainly for iPhoto, Garage Band and iDVD. I am a little dissapointed with the lack of tons of ready to go new iDVD themes and/or more flexibility in editing them, but I can live with it without having to go buy and learn DVD studio. However, the one thing I always was annoyed with in iDVD was editing existing audio tracks/music I have... to play in my iDVD themes - now I can use Garage Band to make those all on my own - loops and/or record my own stuff! I actually have Soundtrack from FCP 4, but I think it will be interesting to have both - what can I say, I LOVE ANY AND ALL NEW SOFTWARE!

**chevy** · #28 January 25th, 2004, 03:18 PM

I ordered today a 160 GB external Firewire HD to free some room on my iMac for iLife. I'll order iLife just after that.

uoba · #29 January 25th, 2004, 03:41 PM

I'm going out tomorrow to get a life... sorry iLife.

gribuz · #30 January 27th, 2004, 05:32 AM

heh i actually considered buying a new guitar just because of iLife

i used to play in highschool and havent played for years, think Garageband looked really nice.

$49 is a bargin if u ask me

Studio Zero · #31 January 27th, 2004, 05:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kanecorp

If you gotta have it, download it, worth about 5 bucks.
I'm so pissed i drove all the way out to the apple store this for this s**t.
like, 7 new DVD themes, so minor updates to itunes and iphoto, garageband is a joke...
I'm very mad right now.

Whine-oceros.

gribuz · #32 January 28th, 2004, 03:00 AM

I think it would be better for apple just to release garageband with the jampack as a standalone product and offer the rest as a free download included iDVD

just a thought