New iMac, iLife 08, iWork 08...
August 07, 2007
I’ve just finished catching up with all of the new Apple announcements made a little while ago. I’ve got to say this is what I thought Macworld way back in January should have been, as opposed to an extended promo of the iPhone.
Firstly, we have the new iMacs which look pretty damn nice. I’ve seen a few people complaining that it’s not much of a change, personally I think that’s a good thing (if it ain’t broke don’t fix it…). Oh and how about up to 4Gb of ram supported?
The only thing I’m not too sure about is the decision to include a glossy screen as standard, they don’t always look good under certain lighting conditions. Oh and the keyboard is lovely, when I saw some leaked images of it the other day I wanted one instantly, it looks much nicer than the Apple keyboard I’m typing on now anyway.
Then there’s the iLife ’08 suite, I’m waiting patiently for the tour video to download at the moment so I can see what all the fuss is about, but from what I’ve read it should be a nice upgrade from ’06.
iWork got a nice new addition too, a spreadsheet application called Numbers (it looks pretty cool) which finally makes iWork a possible alternative to Microsoft Office which I hate with a passion on the mac.
I may write a bit more on this later when I’m fully up to speed but really you should just got to Apple.com and get excited whilst trying to resist the urge to whip out your credit card!
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