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(Unverified)Jan 9th 2009 4:02PM
From what I know and can find out all new Mac's come with iLife. Older Mac's and MacBook Pros came with iLife 08 and now that iLife 09 is out the new ones come with iLife 09 and there is an upgrade for recently purchased computers that have ilife 08 provided you purchased them within a certain time period from the iLife 09 release. The really weak offering from Apple is their text application but there are some free downloads available such as textwrangler.app that is free and gives you more flexibility but I would like to see Apple provide in their iLife package a better text program and some flat file database app as standard on their products. From what I can see iLife 09's iPhoto is worth the price of the upgrade alone based upon the upgrades but then others will see that differently. Still based on what you get in the package it blows away anything that Microsoft offers it's users as does iWork 09 & 08 compared to the cost Microsoft hits you with for their Office version. Kudos to Apple once again.
QuikboyJan 10th 2009 12:14AM
I understand how iLife can blow away anything Microsoft has, but I really doubt iWork can blow away Microsoft Office. Maybe with some of the neat little transitions and effects on Keynote, but not much else.
(Unverified)Jan 11th 2009 8:11PM
I have used Microsoft Word for MAC both Office 08, Office 04 and Office 06. iWork 08 and the new iWork 09 (some improvements and more templates) as far as I knew never tried to replace Office. Office remains the Standard for what it is however iWork has made it much easer to accomplish very nice looking documents and do things much easier for the average user than Office's great products that are so filled with goodies which most never are able to utilize. I hope Microsoft does improve Work's and competes both there and in the OS but as it is pricewise and what you get Apple still, in my opinion, holds the overall edge but then you do usually pay more for the hardware, unless you get quality PC products like Sony, Dell, etc and then there isn't that much difference these days in cost. I still use Windows ( XP ) under a virtual environment on my MAC using VM Ware Fusion program and what blows me away is that my Windows programs run far faster and actually more stable then when I ran them under my dedicated Windows (PC) machine. That one I still can't figure out.