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View Full Version : iLife '11, Well Worth the Upgrade

Jeff Campbell
10-21-2010, 01:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.cultofmac.com/ilife-11-gets-heavy-dose-of-creative-magic-steals-todays-show-opinion/64753?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+cultofmac/bFow+(Cult+of+Mac)' target='_blank'>http://www.cultofmac.com/ilife-11-g...w+(Cult+of+Mac)</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Despite a massive lion lurking in the background of the press invite for today's event, the big news didn't have much to do with OS X 10.7 (now officially "Lion"); instead, the big news was about the new MacBook Air pair, the Mac App Store, FaceTime for Mac - and iLife '11"</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/at/auto/1287626882.usr105634.jpg" style="float: right;" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>With the updates to iLife, namely iPhoto, GarageBand and iMovie, this just became one of the greatest values out there. $49.00 USD for this package is a steal with all it does now. Even if they only updated iMovie it would have been worth it. And best of all, if you purchased a Mac with iLife on or after October 1st this year, you can <a href="http://redirectingat.com/?id=3964X639382&amp;xs=1&amp;url=http://www.apple.com/ilife/uptodate/&amp;sref=http://www.cultofmac.com/just-bought-a-mac-get-ilife-11-for-just-7/64926?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+cultofmac%2FbFow+%28Cult+of+Mac%29" target="_blank">upgrade</a> for a measily $7.00 USD. Nice.&nbsp;</p>
Macguy59
10-22-2010, 03:40 AM
And it looks like you'll be able to buy individual apps rather than the entire suite via the Mac app store.
Jason Dunn
10-24-2010, 04:33 AM
Anyone interested in the upgrade should do some research before buying; iPhoto has pretty awful performance on my Mac Mini. Doing something as simple as resizing the window pins the CPU usage at 174%. Lots of people complaining about the same thing in the reviews at the Apple store. I never used iPhoto '09 (that's right, I never fired it up in four months), so I have nothing to compare it with; but the performance isn't what I was expecting from a Core 2 Duo 2.4 Ghz CPU with 4 GB of RAM.
Macguy59
10-24-2010, 05:17 AM
Hmmm runs fine on the new 'Air I picked up at
the Lincoln Park grand opening this morning. I didn't resize the window but
I ran it full screen without any slowdown.
Jason Dunn
10-25-2010, 05:01 PM
Hmmm runs fine on the new 'Air I picked up at
the Lincoln Park grand opening this morning. I didn't resize the window but
I ran it full screen without any slowdown.

Try building a book with it - I'm really not happy with how sluggish the program is. But we may have different standards for what acceptable performance is. :)
Macguy59
10-25-2010, 06:49 PM
Try building a book with it - I'm really not happy with how sluggish the program is. But we may have different standards for what acceptable performance is. :)

I doubt we have different standards for acceptable performance. I'll
try doing a book.