Apple iLife '06 (Mac DVD) [OLD VERSION] Reviews

• It keeps getting better

  
  By A1BSY82HK2BT12 on 2006-01-18
  If you skipped last year's iLife update then you should run, to the store to buy this update. This is one of the nicest updates Apple has done to iLife.
  
  I'll start with a general overview of some new features. A big difference is that all the apps were given a makeover. They all now look like iTunes 6 with that nice platinum look. This is a huge improvment over brushed metal in my opinion. Next is that iLife is even more tied to .Mac in this version (a service some love and others hate, I personaly think it is worth the money) giving even more value to the service.
  
  Now let me go through each application:
  
  iWeb - This is a new app used for simple web publishing. At first I wasn't too impresed with this app due to its very basic features. Turns out, while limited you can due serious customizing to the templates Apple provides. This is a great app to simply put all the stuff you created using iLife on to the web. It takes about 30 minutes to put up a fully functional, great looking web page. iWeb is not tied to .Mac so if you already have web hosting you can use it to build pages, though to use one putton publishing and the new slideshow for photo pages you must be a .Mac subscriber.
  
  iPhoto - One of my favorite iLife apps. This version is much improved over '05. Every year Apple promises speed improvements and this year they finally delivered. You can also add 250,000 photos to your library. Full screen editing is a great feature that most people will probably use often. The effects cheesey in my opinion but some people may like them. The adjustment tools are the same as last years version (you don't need to mess with something that works so good). Apple also promises better printing of books, so far I haven't ordered any from 06 but last years looked pretty good though there was some room for improvement.
  
  Garageband - I don't use Garageband much but the new podcast studio works great, very easy to use. This is coming from a dummy when it comes to audio editing.
  
  iDVD - Not much new here. The new themes are pretty cool and they match up with the animated themes in iMovie. The interface has been changed a bit for the better.
  
  iMovie - I've been playing with iMovie a lot since getting iLife '06 and I'm impressed. The new themes (only for Tiger users) are very cool. They really make your movies a bit more entertaining and they match the new iDVD themes. The themes feature alone makes this update worth it mainly though if you are a Tiger user.
  
  Even if you use just two of these apps, iLife is worth the price. This year saw some very nice updates to already wonderful applications. These programs are part of the reason the Mac is so great. To top it off I haven't found a single bug after using the programs for almost a week straight.
  
  Nice work Apple!
  
  

• In all honesty... I was really annoyed. But, it's very good.

  
  By A3TUZOJZM9008Y on 2006-01-23
  I bought a new iMac G5 in November. Come January, not only is it outdated, but the primary programs i use with it are as well. Oh well, I stopped whining long enough to buy the new iLife suite. And, as is Apple's way, it's a great upgrade to a great suite.
  
  iPhoto 6 - Increases library capacity from 25,000 to 250,000 photos. Runs amazingly fast even with all of those images. And, with a .Mac account, allows you to photocast to anyone who subscribes to your images.
  
  GarageBand 3 - Not only does it run faster and smoother. Not only can a novice create their own music. Now, you can even use it as a studio to create your own podcast, complete with images and music.
  
  iMovie HD 6 - Adding the fuctionality of High-Def and Widescreen wasn't enough for Apple. They threw in real time effects and titling. Plus, movie themes. (I'm still trying to figure out how to use those.)
  
  iDVD 6 - While the interface is smoother and faster, the real treat here are the new themes. Just plain beautiful, and in Widescreen format no less.
  
  iWeb - I was admittedly skeptical of this new addition to the suite. But so far, it is impressing me to no end. It is as close to a drag-and-drop web editor that you may ever see. While the templates could use more variiety to them, the integration with the other programs in the suite is amazing. You can output a movie from iMovie and it will place itself in a web page. Same with a podcast created in GarageBand. You can create your own blog and add an RSS feed at the touch of a button. While they could make it clearer, you don't have to upload to a .Mac account. You can save the pages and upload via FTP to any web server.
  
  Overall, the new iLife '06 is a home run.
  
  

• about iWeb only, for now

  
  By ARNFLIIZ6PBHF on 2006-08-01
  I'm starting up a business and it was my intent to learn Frontpage and build a site which I would have up in the Spring. The problem is that I knew exactly what I wanted the page to look like and operate. I had tinkered around with Frontpage a year ago just because I was curious how a web site was put together, and so I figured it would take several months to get what I wanted.
  
  Since that time I bought a Mac and wondered about the wisdom of using Frontpage because it would mean that I would have to have a PC around to update and change the web site. But I liked the flexibility that Frontpage offered, and was willing to work at it until I could take advantage of that. Or wait until MS comes out with their updated version with Vista and see what that is like.
  
  I emailed a friend who does web site work and asked what I should use if I was going to be using our Macs for this. He said iWeb, which made me pause because I was trying to create a business web site, not a blog or site of my pictures of my last vacation. But I like him, he's incredibly smart and all that stuff, and so I thought I'd buy it and see if it would work. If not I'd just buy another Mac friendly program like Rapid Weaver.
  
  At first I was put off by the number of templates, which I thought was way too few. But I would say that the hardest part of the process was accepting that my site was not going to be exactly what I had envisioned in my head. While I was getting over that I just started goofing around to see what it could do.
  
  I was literally stunned at the ease of use. I found that if I started with blank pages I could make it do what I wanted, and how I wanted it to look. The only lack of flexibility is that the buttons to bounce between pages is always at the top. That's not a problem for me, however.
  
  I have never used a program which was so completely intuitive. I never had a roadblock, and the only help I needed was found in the book "The Macintosh iLife '06" by Jim Heid. He gives less than 20 pages to iWeb, but it's more than enough. It was actually so enjoyable to work on my site that I ended up working on it one night until 4 in the morning -- and I was in college during the Carter administration, so I'm normally hitting the sack at 10 like the boring person I am!
  
  I had planned on having my site done by the end of the year, using Frontpage, but it's virtually done now after 10 days of working here and there on it. (What's left to do is to take a few more pictures and edit the text again.) My plan was also to take a month or two and learn how to load it to a site and make changes as needed, etc. That took an hour to figure out (using Transmit ftp program, and hosting at Mecca Hosting -- I also have great things to say about that program and hosting site as well).
  
  So, after about two weeks my site is up temporarily at .Mac (because I could password protect it and just have a few friends look at it and make comments), and I created a temporary site at Mecca. As an aside I didn't want to use .Mac for my host because I needed my business name in my URL, but I'll use their site for the sixty days and then decide. Maybe i do a personal web site at .Mac just for fun.
  
  But know that it was very, very easy to download my site to Mecca and I started out never having done an ftp transfer. It did take about an hour figuing out Transmit, but even that was fun rather than frustrating.
  
  As for the site, no one has any idea I created it on iWeb, meaning that it doens't look amateurish. In fact I think it looks better than many of the sites friends in my line of work have had professionally done. Perhaps that's because it's more to my taste, but my point is that it was easy to make what I wanted and have it come out looking great.
  
  My only complaints are the lack of templates, which I was able to get around by starting with blank pages. So that's no complaint at all.
  
  My second complaint is that this was supposed to take a few months of my time (working at it when I found the time and was willing to work through frustrations - which never materialized). Now's it's done and I can't put it on the web until the Spring. That's my real complaint.
  
  This is without a doubt the best program I have ever used.
  
  

• Everything Is Great... except iWeb

  
  By A2OHNGDC7KLMEC on 2006-03-20
  All of the favorites are there with great improvement in speed and use.
  
  I love the fact that I can open up more than one project in iMovie and move scenes from one project to another.
  
  GarageBand has improved tremendously as well.
  
  iPhoto is about the same although the speed has increased tremendously. And iDvd still needs more templates.
  
  The only part of the package that fell short is iWeb. Too few templates with too few options. It is easy to put together a very quick page (I put together a slide show page of our kids pics for Grandma) but that's about all it's good for.
  
  I'm sure that, if given time, iWeb will mature as iMovie and the rest have. They should have done what they did with iMovie at the beginning. Make iWeb a free download, fix it, build on it, then make it an app that you just got to have.
  
  If you are getting iLife because of iMovie or GarageBand then, I say, go for it.
  
  If you want iLife because you want an easy web design program, go with RapidWeaver until at least iWeb 2.0
  
  

• For photographers - iPhoto is the best

  
  By A2E9NLZR4GDU52 on 2006-06-20
  
  I purchased my Mac in Sept 2005 - having been a PC user for more than ten years. My main reason for buying a Mac was for my hobbies in photography and videography. I was using Roxio's Easy Media Creator video software for creating DVDs for my home videos and I wanted to move on to the next step. At first - I considered trying Adobe Premier Elements - but that was too complicated. I did a lot of research online and the one thing that struck me was that a lot of reviews were recommending Mac software.
  
  Although I had iLife '05 - I still decided to buy iLife '06. The compelling reason was really due to the new features with iPhoto, including:
  
  1. Ability to support more pictures in the library - up to 250,000 pictures
  2. Ability to support linking of files to the library - instead of copying the files and taking up more space.
  
  I had recently purchases a high-end digital SLR and for those of you with a digital camera know - you'll definitely have way more pictures owning a digital camera than a film camera. Whenever I take pictures - I can easily take 500 pictures at a time, and if I do that twice or three times a month, that's close to 2,000 pictures. Within a year - I would have maxed out the capabilities of iPhoto '05.
  
  The other cool thing is that iPhoto '06 doesn't have to copy the files from my source to it's own iLife directory. So now - I maintain my own directory structure and when I 'import' to iLife '06 - it creates a reference - thereby saving me hard-drive space that can be used to store even more pictures! The additional benefit is that whenever I make changes to a picture file - iPhoto actually makes a copy and operates off of that copy - thereby perserving the integrity of the original. So if I want to 'revert to original' it's just a mouse click away.
  
  
• WARNING!!! DO NOT BUY
  By AXPA5H5KZL0G on 2006-09-26
  As a Digital Photographer and a MAC user, I found iPhoto crashes when you try to IMPORT any DIGITAL (only)l pictures from Adobe Photosop CS & Adobe Elemebts 2. I can downlaod my pictures to iPhoto from my Digital camera (D70), export them to my pictures folder, adjust the pictures using either above mentioned software, but cannot Import any of them. Go to MacRumors, you'll see that you're not alone. Hey APPLE?? When are you going to fix this????
  
  
• How Does It Keep Getting Better?
  By A3EW2L59UBHQSG on 2006-01-29
  Every year, iLife is updated and every year I am amazed at how much better it gets. How do they keep doing it? iMovie and iDvd each have more themes to choose from, iPhoto is even faster and has added full-screen editing (!) as well as the ability to make calendars and cards. Goodbye Kodak Photo Gallery! GarageBand is now the perfect (and easy) way for Mac users to create Podcasts as well as music. I couldn't believe how simple it was the first time I tried it.
  
  But as amazing as all those improvements are, I'm most impressed with the new application iWeb. This little webpage creator is vastly superior to HomePage in almost every way. Drag and drop images, movies and text to any of the included templates to create your webpage in seconds. If you have a .Mac account, just click the "Publish" button to put it on the web. If you don't have .Mac, you can save your page and post it through your server. I've changed my entire site over to iWeb and not only does it look much better, but it was easy and a pleasure to do.
  
  For making movies, DVDs, podcasts, music, webpages, editing and storing photos there is simply no better suite available anywhere. If you own a Mac that didn't come pre-installed with iLife '06 you should buy this immediately. This is amazing stuff.
  
  
• Ease of Use With Professional Results
  By A1OI9O2S4UOB5O on 2006-03-20
  I recently helped my parents pick out a new computer. They had a Windows PC and it was giving them nothing but trouble. They asked me to help them choose a Mac because they noticed my iBook had been up and running since the day I bought it with absolutely no troubles. So, I agreed, and we picked a Mac Mini (G4). Now, I've been an Apple user for some time, but I've always used Adobe and Macromedia apps for my website and photo needs.
  
  The first thing my parents commented on was how wonderful iLife '06 was. They were amazed by what they could do with it, and how easy it was to do it. These are not tech savvy parents in the least. Finally, they could truly take advantage of the camcorder they bought, all the features of their digital camera, and now my dad (who doesn't know a single line of HTML) has a cooler website than I do.
  
  He told me yesterday they couldn't have dreamed of doing half of this stuff on a PC because it was all so complicated. Because of iLife alone, my parents love their new Mac mini.
  
  I decided to toy around with it, and frankly, I'm very impressed. Apple makes building a website fun, simple, and widely compatible with prevailing web standards in iWeb. iPhoto is fairly basic, but still very useful and integrated into about every other program on the mac. iDVD is just plain simple, iMovie is absolutely amazing... I was so overly impressed with this suite that I put it on wish list right off the bat. Apple's got a winner in iLife '06.
  
  
• iPhoto 6
  By A6YJK4X1IBTUE on 2006-08-24
  I purchased iLife specifically for iPhoto 6. I haven't looked at the other programs on this DVD. I find iPhoto 6 to be very helpful in downloading, managing, and editing digital photos
  
  
• Upgrading iPhoto
  By A1VOKGTKG2KNYJ on 2006-03-13
  I was having trouble with iPhoto performing very slowly and even crashing. iLife upgraded the program, which now runs very fast with no problems. I have not yet used the other elements of the program.
  
  
• iLife/iPhoto
  By A1PJGPVQTVGPY3 on 2007-01-09
  I bought this primarily for the upgrades in iPhoto and have been very happy I did. If they had just done something that would let me move and/or preferably reduce the size of that honking great control bar that blots almost 1/4 of your carefully composed picture when you want to manually control the slide show I would have given it 5 stars. I really like the full screen editing mode. It is much easier to properly tweak exposure, straighten, etc. with the picture at full size. I also like being able to drag the photo directly from iPhoto to Photoshop if I need to get rid of spots, etc. Sorting through the photos remains a fairly simple task given the variety of ways you can display the photos through View and (if you are good about doing this when you import the pictures) the use of keywords. Overall, it's a very good product that meets most needs of a fairly serious photographer.
  
  
• Apple iLife '06
  By AEUGHVPBD6I0K on 2006-11-15
  I purchased Apple iLife '06 for creating quick DVDs from miniDV videotapes. I found iMovie HD and iDVD to be fairly easy to learn. I initially had problems burning DVDs. That turned out to be a communication problem between my G4 1.4 GHz and my external Sony DVD writer. Once I installed an internal Pioneer DVD writer, that problem went away.
  
  If you're looking for maximum creativity when assembling your DVD, there may be better packages available. If you want to create basic DVDs with some creativity, I found this package to be quite useful.
  
  
• IWeb is the reason I bought it, Apple should have an upgrade price
  By A1YV5G4GL5N6XV on 2006-03-17
  I really only bought the upgrade for iWeb. I don't have a lot of room on my harddrive, I don't have a Superdrive and I don't use Garage Band so I only upgraded iTunes, iPhoto and installed iWeb (I may have upgraded iMovie too... I can't remember). The only program I can review out of the suite is iWeb. The others I haven't noticed any difference from the versions I already had. I'm enjoying iWeb a lot and find it fairly easy to use. I've created a few sites and I love that's it easy to do. My only irritation is that it's mostly geared towards people who want to do blogs. I think some of the templates could be a little better and less photo intensive. For example I may like a particular background (the color and style) but it's setup for photos and it can be difficult if not impossible to remove the frames so I have to pick another template. I have to say it's better than nothing, though I haven't ever used another program to design a website because basic attempts at HTML. It was easy to import the sites to my .Mac page. I think the program will only get better but I think iLife is worth the price just for iWeb. I think Apple should offer an upgrade price for those of us who have an earlier version.
  
  
• Mac iLife '06
  By AG11B1KBXDB51 on 2006-06-25
  I bought iLife '06 specifically for the iPhoto program. The program did as advertised, handling RAW format photos just fine. It even updated "pixilated" RAW photos that I had saved in an earlier version of iPhoto - an excellent package of great programs at a reasonable price.
  
  
• An improvement over iLife 5
  By A18P4Q5LDVHS1P on 2006-12-27
  This is definitely an improvement on iLife 5. The extras in iPhoto alone were were were worth the upgrade. It's great to be able to do quick corrections on the fly. I don't know much about Garage Band, but I was told the improvements are fantastic. iMovie as well has many additional perks. However, the main reason I upgraded was for iWeb which definitely falls short. It is very inflexible as a web authoring program and the only thing it's really good for is to show off your photos on the web. There are many free sites that can do that.
  
  
• iLife is the Ultimate Suite for Digital Media
  By A1T4GZNK9TIJ93 on 2006-02-09
  If you like iTunes, you will love iLife. '06 adds some nice enhancements to an already stellar suite of programs, plus a new program, iWeb, which is alone worth the cost of upgrading. I keep expecting Microsoft (or ANYBODY) to come out with a product that competes with iLife. There may be individual programs that do the same stuff as iLife, but I have looked and not found any as good. Nobody has a suite of programs that works with all of your fun digital stuff so nicely. iLife is like Microsoft Office, only you use it for fun instead of work. Music, photos, videos, webpages, can all be enjoyed at a new level with these programs. Do you have a mp3 player, a digital camera, a scanner, a video camera? Do you like the idea of creating a slick custom web page in minutes without reading a manual? Are you interested in podcasting, making music, or professional looking home movies? If you have a Mac, you are in luck. If you don't, maybe this is what you've been looking for. I bought a Mac last year after 15+ years of PC experience. I love my Dell, but my Mac does things that I never dreamed of, and it is clearly the way to go if you are into creating great digital media without any headaches.
  
  
• great program
  By A1ZLQ8BPFIX7SB on 2006-08-01
  I used it to make my son's 1st Birth day party picture slide show, everybody loved it... great program
  
  
• not worth the effort
  By A1AKA9LQFPL7U7 on 2007-03-26
  buyers beware...back up your photo library first! i stupidly assumed that this would be a simple upgrade, but because iPhoto'06 could not import a few photos that were locked, it didn't import ANY of them and i had to do it all manually. with more than 12,000 photos, this was a BIG pain. plus it imported duplicates, so i had to go through and manually delete the copies. even bigger pain. plus, i lost all my albums...huge loss. the iPhoto program touts "blazing performance" but i've found it to be rather sluggish. there are some cool new features, like the effects palette, but overall i would say that unless there is some feature that you think you can't live without, don't bother upgrading. it certainly wasn't worth all my trouble.
  
  
• Mac is the way to go for Images
  By A1GS2EXQFPJH6 on 2006-02-03
  Mac is the way to go for images so I was told years ago. It is true. The possibilities are endless and continue to be improved. No statics herer just dynamics. This product grows better with each new edition.
  
  
• If you are into digital photo... this is definitely for you.
  By A1GYV9FWP0HCE on 2006-02-23
  I bought iLife primarily for iPhoto. I know that people didn't really like the idea of separating iPhoto from Mac OSX, but once you get to use it for a bit, you then realize that iPhoto alone is worth the $70. After I bought the product, I started creating a 'Book' and played around creating some other 'publishing' features such as a calendar, and greeting cards and what not.
  
  I created a book for my wife just in time for February 14th. It had a collection of photos taken during our wedding back in October, 2005. I thought it was a nice, affordable gift ($26 for a 27-page and 60+ photos book).
  
  Granted, I had already spent close to $100, just in iPhoto related stuff, believe me, it's worth. You can fix photos, create new albums, create movie-like slideshows, and share them with your family and friends. And that's only with iPhoto.
  
  iWeb is another easy-to-use tool if you want to get into the web world of blogs, web pages, and what not... It is a great tool for non-geeky people. I am a web developer and I don't anticipate using this that much. And I almost forgot to mention that you can use iWeb along with iPhoto to publish your photos to a website, so you can share them with all your family and friends.
  
  iMovie is great to create cinematic effects with your movies or photos, I haven't used it that much but if it is up to the quality and usability of iPhoto, it is for sure a great app.
  
  I don't have a DVD-burner (yet), and I am not wild about creating music (I rather listen to it on my iPod), so iDVD and GarageBand are not for me right now.
  
  If you own a Mac, and don't want to spend $200+ in good-quality photo organizers, do quick fixes to all your photos, and to share them with other people, then iPhoto is for you.
  
  After giving my wife the photobook I created with iBook, she joked by saying that I raised the bar very high for next year's Valentine's Day. =)
  
  
• iLife '06 - A great reason to use Macintosh
  By A33M4ERYGEAID3 on 2006-03-13
  If you are an average computer user who uses a digital camera, digital camcorder or likes to record music, this is an essential suite of applications. The bundled applications are easy to use, intuitive, and powerful. At a price well below $80, this is a no-brainer.
  
  
• Painless installation, Great improvements
  By ABPZWLAZDEMCF on 2006-03-13
  After all the hassles of upgrading to ilife '05 and corrupt iPhoto librarys, I was leary, but I bit the bullet, and I'm glad. All of Apples improvements to this essential software shine. I especially appreciate the improvements in iPhoto and iDVD's ability to handle widescreen DVDs now. iWeb is great as a version1, can't wait to see it evolve.
  
  
• Not worth it if you do not have a .MAC account
  By A11O88U1DKWW2G on 2006-06-25
  I do not have a .mac account because I have my own domain. And all the feature in this DVD is something you can use with a .Mac account. iPhoto is fine OK update.
  
  
• So easy.....really!
  By A3NKSVKXMM5I4T on 2007-01-20
  Hey, if you're still on the fence about the whole Mac and PC thing, then you're like I was six months ago. I am still suprised about why I did not switch earler. Using the iLife, makes using my camera and video camera so easy. My entire family can search pictures and find dates, times, very easy. No third party software to load and have conflicts. The iPhoto even has software to order greeting cards and photo books. I've not tried it yet, but seems very easy. Loading in video and the editing process to make and burn a DVD is a brezze. Many of my PC friends often compain about the process on their machines. Every day I use the Mac and it makes my "digitized" life much less frustrating.
  
  
• Better for lots of photos but not as organized
  By A2V1G0L8WP15YY on 2007-07-30
  I purchased iLife '06 ONLY because iPhoto was maxed out (even though '05 states it supports 25,000 photos and we only have 14,000+). Well, the new iPhoto does work great and is fast, however... the way it organizes the photos on your hard drive is a nightmare. No longer are the photos stored in yearly folders, with month and day sub-folders. Now it stores everything by roll number - which is created when you upload the photos. So if you upload two photos that's a roll if you upload 2-weeks of photos, that's a roll, etc. If you post a lot of photos to the internet, you'll know why this is a HUGE pain. Their solution: save copies of the photos you want to upload into a new folder on your computer. How does that SAVE time?? I'm pretty disappointed and HOPE this is an issue they revisit going forward. As it is, it's screwed up the prior folders also so it's a good thing I have it all backed up on an external hard drive up to the point of installing the new version.
  
  
• iLife 06 Delivers
  By A3I92N6EHQI3IP on 2006-02-13
  iLife 06 is the next generation of Apple's digital lifestyle software suite that delivers a set of tools designed specifically for the exploration and conquest of the digital media hobbyist. This is a rock solid upgrade from previous versions that packs some exciting new features to the well known group of applications as well as a couple of new features included for additional versatility. For those who have used the previous versions of iLife products, this newest version will literally be a zero learning curve upgrade to a much more powerful set of applications to tackle your music, photos, video, DVDs, music creations and web based publishing. For first time users, you will find the interface to be slick and intuitive with an amazing proficiency of allowing you to learn and perform the tasks you want without having to bog down into the mechanics of the process. Your creativity is free to explore as you glide thru the interface which is intelligently linked together providing a cohesive set of tools linked to all of your digital media.
  
  iPhoto 6 has seen a significant improvement which now sports an interface that looks very much look Apple's professional photo application called Aperture. iPhoto now allows you to maintain and edit a photo library of over 250,000 images, up from a limit of only 25,000 allowed in iPhoto 5. You can now edit your images in a "full screen" mode which allows you to see your photos up close as you make critical editing decisions. There are some new built in one-click effects tools that are a nice addition as well as the same editing tools that were present in iPhoto 5.
  
  iMovie and iDVD have new movie themes for your home video projects and now also allows you to create and save videos in the High Definition format. Garageband has also seen some new features added including new music instrument loops and tools that allow you to create and record your very own podcasts. The newest addition to the suite is iWeb which is an interface allowing .Mac users to easily create Blogs, Photo Journals, Podcasts, and other webbased content with sublime ease. When I tested it out I was able to put together a Blog and publish an article complete with pictures and an introduction in about 5 minutes and family members miles away were able to log in and enjoy my professional looking Blog. iWeb is a first generation app and as such has some limitations. You can only publish to .Mac accounts using the one click "publish button" and the app does not use CSS stylesheets. However, you can save out as HTML files and publish to other web sites using a third party program. Hopefully, these limitations will be dealt with in the future, but if you are a .Mac user, then you will have a new app that can assist you in creating new and exciting web publications with minimal effort.
  
  I've been using the iLife software suite since the 2003 version and I can truly say that each year Apple somehow manages to make the product better. The 2006 versions is no exception. It is the best collection so far and one that every Mac user would probably gain much benefit and enjoyment from on their Macs.
  
  
• Worth the upgrade!
  By A3CVQP8FUTUGOI on 2006-02-24
  I purchased a new iBook just months before iLife 06 came out and read a lot of negative reviews about there not being an upgrade price. I eventually chose to purchase the software anyway, and I have to say that I do not regret the purchase one bit! Worth the money for iWeb alone if you're not tech-savvy enough to publish your own website. I mostly use iMovie, iPhoto and iWeb and haven't had a single problem. Save yourself a few bucks and order it from Amazon!!
  
  
• great, great
  By A3B2W7RDBP04W4 on 2006-02-24
  this is a worhty addition to the ilife legacy. id reccommend it to any non professional/am user trying to create music, sites, edit photos, etc. try it.
  
  
• pretty good program
  By A1ZJ8BWVM5L5GW on 2006-06-21
  iPhoto is an okay program. I wish it was more like Picasa for the PC which performs better, looks better, and is free.
  
  iMovie seem to take a long time to convert an hour DV movie to mov on a PowerBook G4. I ended up stopping the conversion after 5 hours. It did a good job of inserting transitions.
  
  iDVD does a nice job putting in chapters.
  
  iWeb and Garageband, don't use it.
  
  
• Not for PMG3
  By AKYAZKWVVCWS5 on 2006-08-12
  Might be a good product but I'll never know.
  I purchased before doing my homework.
  It will not install on Blue and White G3
  
  

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• Apple Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.6 (Mac DVD) [OLD VERSION]
• Apple iWork '06 (Mac DVD) [OLDER VERSION]
• The Macintosh iLife 06
• iMovie 6 & iDVD: The Missing Manual
• Mac OS X Version 10.5.4 Leopard