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Currently downloading the trial to see if it's worth the $79 - anyone else had the opportunity to play with it?
 
Have not tried yet - got a link for the trial?
My problem in buying it is that I only use iPhoto.... and paying for the full suit is a bit much when I never even bother with the other apps.
 
adsl3g said:
Have not tried yet - got a link for the trial?
My problem in buying it is that I only use iPhoto.... and paying for the full suit is a bit much when I never even bother with the other apps.
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This is iWork - iPhoto is part of iLife but there is no free trial for that as far as I can tell. I'm definitely plonking down the $75 for that though just for the new iPhoto for a couple of my older machines.

Back to iWork . . . it's looking to me like iWork is as good as or even better than Mac Office. I'm still kicking the tyres though but Numbers seems to be just what the Dr ordered and Pages is so much better than it used to be.
 
Uoops muddled - iWork/iLife

You say the upgrade to iPhoto is worth the $79 even though I don't use the other apps.

I see Bootcamp v1.4 is out - have you tried it, still running beta 1.2 and shuddering at the 347mb download.
 
adsl3g said:
Uoops muddled - iWork/iLife

You say the upgrade to iPhoto is worth the $79 even though I don't use the other apps.

I see Bootcamp v1.4 is out - have you tried it, still running beta 1.2 and shuddering at the 347mb download.
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If you dont think you'll need the power of aperture then get iPhoto - I've just finished listening to macbreak weekly and apparently the changes are significant. Hopefully they'll have an edition of the iLifeZone out soon and they will go into more detail.

I've got rid of windows altogether on my MBP and cant remember when I last booted into windows on my mini so I'm probably not going to bother right now with that update.
 
bwana said:
I've got rid of windows altogether on my MBP and cant remember when I last booted into windows on my mini so I'm probably not going to bother right now with that update.
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For an old Windows user (me) I must say I have not booted into windows for bloody ages on the MB... I just dont seem to have a need for it. I installed Windows Remote desktop on the MB and can drive my PC just fine from the lounge where the MB is positioned in front of the TV so not even necessary for ||'s at this stage.
 
I took the plunge and downloaded the trial, and I'm definitely going to be getting a family pack as soon as it is available here.
Numbers is a great way to work, and the changes to Pages make it a LOT better than v3. You can actually do word processing.
Haven't tested the xls and doc imports/exports yet, but if they work as advertised, I'm gonna ditch my bootcamp partition.
Just the changes to keynote makes it worth the upgrade.
 
Seems like I can buy a license online and just enter that into the demo - might even spring the extra $20 for the family license too.

Wish I could do the same with iLife.
 
Numbers so far handled all the spreadsheets I threw at it. That said, I am not a spreadsheet user, I am merely a spreadsheet reader. My boss sends me stuff in xls format and I just open it.

What amused me is that Numbers doesn't try to make it look exactly like it would in Excel, but rather to display the data in the spreadsheet in a way that makes sense in Numbers. Which is a bit weird in the beginning but rather nice once you're used to it.

Now, as much as I would like the good stuff to stay exclusive to the Mac, they need to release this for Windows, and put some effort into getting people to use it. If iWork gets a wider acceptance, especially in small businesses, Apple might actually have a chance of getting their computers into the business world.
 
Anyone had any experience opening word files in this new format that Microsoft uses?

EDIT - should have held off on asking that qn for a while - according to this story I found on Digg.com

Tuesday, Apple rolled out a refreshed iWork that added a spreadsheet, dubbed Numbers, to the earlier mix of a word processor/page layout Pages and presentation maker Keynote. But it was iWork's ability to handle the Open XML file format -- the new native format for Microsoft's own Office 2007 application suite -- that Michael Gartenberg of JupiterResearch talked about.

"This was the ultimate insult to injury," Gartenberg said. "Not only has Microsoft not delivered the ability to read and write Open XML in its Mac Office, but at the end of the day, Apple was the one who delivered."
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Now where's my creditcard . . .
 
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Sounds like it is really a nice office package to use. Please keep posting any issues you encounter. Might spring for a version of it and keep Office '07 on the virtual side just in case I need something in there.

Thanks for the info.
 
vespax said:
Sounds like it is really a nice office package to use. Please keep posting any issues you encounter. Might spring for a version of it and keep Office '07 on the virtual side just in case I need something in there.

Thanks for the info.
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Download the free 30 day trial and decide for yourself - http://www.apple.com/iwork/trial/ :)

EDIT - apologies to adsl3g for not posting the link earlier :0
 
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will in a few weeks when in the states and probably with a new macbook. Will also give it a good run through at the apple store nearby.
 
vespax said:
will in a few weeks when in the states and probably with a new macbook. Will also give it a good run through at the apple store nearby.
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I cant remember - does NJ have sales tax on computers? If so - Amazon it.

BTW - you'll get the trial with it as well as i[-]Works[/-]Life. :)
 
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Well well well, this can be interesting ... as someone working in a M$ environment, this will definitely coming in handy. I am running M$ Office for Mac, but as you know, I can't open Office 2007 files (and our whole company has been upgraded to Office 2007 already ... downloading the trial now
 
No iLife trial, I see. That's a pity. I haven't gotten as far as putting my photo collection into iPhoto, let alone use any of the other components. iPhoto at this point doesn't grab my attention much, but after seeing the demo of the new one, I might take to it if I get to play with it a bit.
 
I wonder if the new iLife will be standard (free) with Leopard and/or new MacBook Pros at a future date?
 
Ok, I lied ... not downloading yet ... a whopping 468Mb ... will have to wait till I get home :(
 
koffiejunkie said:
Now, as much as I would like the good stuff to stay exclusive to the Mac, they need to release this for Windows, and put some effort into getting people to use it. If iWork gets a wider acceptance, especially in small businesses, Apple might actually have a chance of getting their computers into the business world.
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I believe the key is not really to have iWork on windows but to have it use an open format that works in iwork, open office and ms office.

Edit: Does anyone know if iLife 08 is going to be part of Leopard?
 
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icyrus said:
I believe the key is not really to have iWork on windows but to have it use an open format that works in iwork, open office and ms office.

Edit: Does anyone know if iLife 08 is going to be part of Leopard?
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Doubt it - iLife always comes with a new computer though.
 
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