iLife '04: Don't waste your money - Page 5

Arden · #33 January 28th, 2004, 05:59 AM

Want to know why they don't do this? Because, in total, iLife takes up about 4 gigabytes of space. Even with compression, that's still something like 3 GB to download for all of iLife. Nobody but those with the fastest university or business pipelines would take the time to download all of that.

Randman · #34 January 28th, 2004, 06:08 AM

GB is the big file. The others are manageable and available on CD. I'm just wondering when JamPack 2 will come out.

gribuz · #35 January 28th, 2004, 06:40 AM

Well they could just start to include iLife with 10.4, then there will be no big download, only updates

Arden · #36 January 28th, 2004, 06:42 AM

iDVD is pretty big, too, though. Those themes (and whatever else) take up quite a bit of space. It's those two, basically. I guess Apple figured that with 2 non-downloadable apps in iLife instead of just 1, they may as well make iPhoto & iMovie non-downloadable as well.

karavite · #37 January 28th, 2004, 04:08 PM

You know, in this instant gratification based world of ours, isn't it nice to wait a few days for something in the mail these days!

hulkaros · #38 January 29th, 2004, 06:23 AM

iLife '04 deserves every single dollar or euro or whatever!

2 hours of video with iDVD? Make music THAT easy with GarageBand? Manage thousands of photos without breaking a sweat? DV edit like a Pro without his/her Pro troubles?

Come on! iLife '04 is like Office but for the rest of our life BUT... Minus the stupidity of Office and not to mention it's costs!

karavite · #39 January 30th, 2004, 07:48 AM

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Originally Posted by hulkaros

Come on! iLife '04 is like Office but for the rest of our life BUT... Minus the stupidity of Office and not to mention it's costs!

That's a really neat way of thinking about it. iLife apps are much much more "seamlessly integrated" than Office apps. A movie is a movie, a picture is a picture, a song is a song... and they all get passed around between the apps like a dream. In comparison we have a Word table then a Excel sheet - not quite the same thing, but close enough yet with completely different rules and controls. I could go on, but I wont. The term "seamless integration" is perhaps the biggest BS line in all of IT, no thanks to Microsoft. Still, imagine if Office apps worked together like iApps? Imagining it is as close as it will get - I mean they have had almost ten years to get it right.