Macworld anouncements : deceptive at least!
Phil Schiffer announced 3 new products, iLife’09, iWork’09 and the new MacBook Pro 17″.
The iLife’09 suite is an improved iLife’08 suite in 4-ways:
- iPhoto’09 support face detection, recognition and geotaggingm, as well as flicker and facebook intercations. Nice but probably not worth the switch.
- GarageBand’09 adds new lessons from celebrities (9 basic piano and 9 basic guitar), with the ability to buy others online. hum.
- iWeb’09 support new Web Widgets, including facebook alerts, countdowns, etc. and more important the ability to finally sync using FTP with any hosting
- iMovie’09 offers new editing functions, with more precision and more control, more effects (real-time ), and an anti-shake technology that works!
Nothing that will make me upgrade from iLife’08 to iLife’09, albeit I will to have an extensive test of the new features of iLife!
The iWork’09 is an improved version of iWork, with the ability to post comments online to a document uploaded in iwork.com , without real sharing or groupware functions. Just too short baby!
MacBook Pro 17″ is the same as the MacBook Pro 15″, with some differences, 4-5% facter CPU (nobody will notice), 17″ 1920×1200 screen (everybody will notice!), integrated non-replaceable battery with 8 hours autonomy (waow!), but a tag price that offers you Quad-core laptop with twice the CPU and GPU speed, and twice (if not more) the hard-drive space and speed!
For me the MacBook Pro is totally deceptive because of it’s performance-level related to it’s price tag!
Finally, no new Mac Mini, no new iMac, no new MacPro (with Core i7 derived Xeon’s), no Snow Leopard presentation, and no fun 