Pete,
Sorry for your bad experience with iLife. I will however rise to the defence of Garageband. It is nothing short of the best $50 piece of software I have ever purchased...I'm 57 and own tons of apps.
My install of GB and Jampack uses 4.7GB of HD space...so it is sufficient in size. Running on a Quicksilver 1.33Ghz with 1.25GB if RAM I have no horsepower problems.
Just today 4 local High School juniors, one of which is a Mac owner, noddled for 4 hours having great fun with no strong musical talent or Mac experience......
My 2�
~Bob
Moulton, Pete wrote:
Just been and bought Panther and iLife 04 ( AUS$79), purely for
Garageband, so imagine my disappointment to discover that it (and iDVD)
comes on a DVD whereas other apps come on a CD!! I only have a CD ROM in
my iMac and CDRW in my G4. Can't help but think Apple have deliberately
overlooked existing users who don't have DVD's. Would it have hurt to
have put GarageBand on a CD? Panther comes with 4 CD's. from what I've
seen of iPhoto4 and iMovie 4, there are no real major differences over
version 3 that comes with Panther 10.3.2 that could justify the price so
assume that it is basically GarageBand you are paying for. If apple are
serious about GarageBand surely it should be on CD too? Afterall proper
Pro audio apps like Reason, Cubase come on CD's. Or why not give the
option and include both?
Also hear that GarageBand is probably the most resource hungry app you'll ever run on a Mac and makes Windows XP look like an optimised piece of software. If this is the case it has a long way to go before it can match the performance of existing audio/recording apps. Hope Apple quickly rectify this, and get CD versions pronto for users who have been let down by the stupid DVD policy. How much did Apple pay the marketing boys for a strategy that has cut out a huge chunk of their potenital market, leaving PC migrators like myself regretting the outlay?
Yes I tried networkig my PC Laptop and shared its DVD drive, but the PC did not recognise any of the apple apps, so I got a blank pane in Windows Explorer. Have to find a mac user who has a DVD drive and see if they will allow me to network my machine to load the blasted thing on! So far my venture into Panther and GarageBand has come to a disappointing dead end.
Any ideas would be welcomed. Although I can't justify buying and external DVD drive that will cost the earth just to be used once in a blue moon.
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