Apple iLife '08 Expert Reviews

Apple's revamped suite is a slick and intuitive solution for time-crunched media mavens.

Apple iLife '08Apple is touting what it calls the biggest changes to iLife in more than five years. iPhoto gets some nice ease-of-use adjustments; iMovie changes radically from its predecessor; and the most obvious addition to GarageBand is a virtual stag...

Apple iLife '08 applications have elegant interfaces, integrate well, and tie into .Mac, iTunes, and YouTube accounts. iPhoto nicely organizes pictures by events, iMovie is drag-and-drop simple, and GarageBand offers more controls.

iMovie's radical rebuild omits features for precision edits; must pay for .Mac account to make the most of iPhoto.

Apple iLife '08 is a fine, affordable media-editing suite that should keep beginners and hobbyists happy when managing pictures, videos, songs, and podcasts, but those seeking to fine-tune movies should look elsewhere.

The Apple Special Event today also announced iLife '08. iLife is composed of five applications - iPhoto, iMovie, iWeb, iDVD and Garage Band. These applications are designed to help you and you...

In iPhoto, Events organises photos for you; GarageBand gives you the ability to record multiple takes within a specific marked section of a song; iWeb '08 has the ability to add 'widgets' to your Web pages; iWeb '08 is both versatile and impressively easy...

iMovie looks more crowded and complicated than before; iMovie isn't user-friendly; there is nothing genuinely new about iDVD

On the whole, we have very few criticisms of iLife. As ever, it represents superb value for money and the new versions of iPhoto, GarageBand and even iWeb are impressive (barring a few iWeb glitches of which you need to be aware). Even the minor upgrade t...

Apple's iLife software is bundled free with every Apple Mac PC. This update sees impressive upgrades for iWeb, iPhoto and GarageBand, but iMovie is less than impressive.

On the whole, we have very few criticisms of iLife. As ever, it represents superb value for money and the new versions of iPhoto, GarageBand and even iWeb are impressive (barring a few iWeb glitches of which you need to be aware). Even the minor upgrade t...

The new iLife suite is very capable, but how many Macs will be able to run it?

iMovie '08 exceptionally easy to use, iMovie '08 exceptionally easy to use, iPhoto Events improve organisation, Skimming technique works well

iMovie a bit dumbed down, iMovie a bit dumbed down, £70 .Mac sub needed for full use of iPhoto, Fast Mac required to run

A much improved, easy-to-use multimedia suite, but only for those with modern Macs.

multimedia suite for Mac owners

iLife '08 is something of a mixed bag. Of the two heavily-reworked apps, iPhoto and iMovie, iPhoto is an improvement; it's easier to use and with something for the more serious photo editor as well as the beginner. iMovie is not going to win friends with

Just in case you were wondering, you haven't accidentally slept through iLife '07. Apple has decided that since 2007 is closer to its end than its start, it would skip ahead to iLife '08. With so much development time going into Leopard, the iPhone and iP...

Much better management with Events, iMovie '08 is very quick and easy to use, .Mac Web Gallery integration

No video effects in iMovie '08 any more, Can't open iMovie HD 6 files, .Mac required to get full benefit

iLife '08 stands as an excellent suite of digital tools, with some nifty improvements for iMovie and iPhoto in particular

As a suite of tools in its own right, iLife is a triumph of usability, power and function

Much better management with Events, iMovie '08 is very quick and easy to use, .Mac Web Gallery integration

No video effects in iMovie '08 any more, Can't open iMovie HD 6 files, .Mac required to get full benefit

It's worth mentioning that iTunes is also a part of iLife and does come on the DVD, but it's so well established and widely used that it's generally thought of as a program in its own right, so let's put it aside for the moment and look at the changes to