“Apple iLife ’08 iLife is a triumph [and it’s] the easiest way to make and share beautiful multimedia. If you have a small child, faraway family members, and a Mac, it’s a must-buy. And if you’ve never dared make a movie before, the new iMovie is for you,” Sascha Segan reports for PC Magazine.
“iLife is five programs for $79, a great value—each of the individual programs is worth the price for the package. It combines iPhoto, the best program out there for organizing and ordering prints of your photos; iMovie, a basic but almost unbelievably easy video editor; iWeb, a template-based Web design program; iDVD, which turns iPhotos and iMovies into slick, attractive DVDs; and GarageBand, which lets you record podcasts and assemble basic soundtracks from musical loops,” Segan reports.
Segan’s review gives the following individual scores:
• iPhoto – 5 out of 5: iPhoto sets and maintains the standard for managing your personal photo library and churning out those holiday calendars the grandparents rely on.
• iDVD – 4 out of 5: iDVD is an effortlessly easy, yet surprisingly, flexible way to create good-looking, standard-def video and photo DVDs.
• iMovie – 4 out of 5: This isn’t an upgrade to iMovie HD—iMovie ’08 is an entirely new program that lets you create simple movies extremely quickly.
• iWeb – 3.5 out of 5: As long as you also have a .Mac account, iWeb takes all of the fear and confusion out of creating a basic personal Web site.
• GarageBand – 3.5 out of 5: This software looks great, is easy to use, and has some novel new features, like Visual EQ and Magic GarageBand. Not for pros, this is software you will eventually graduate from—but it makes learning fun.
And a composite score of 4 out of 5 for the iLife ’08 suite.
Full in-depth review here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Corinne” for the heads up.]