I've been trying (for the past 24 hours) to figure out if it's worth the $29 upgrade or the $169 box set to get iMovie 2009 instead of the terrible iMovie 2008. (Money is tight.) What's so good about this for the average user? Will it make my Mac crash less when I am doing a million things at once in a million different windows? (It's actually not the Mac that crashes as much as Word and Firefox and Picasa. So perhaps I should not blame Mac. And it still crashes a lot less than any PC I've ever used so, well, heavy-handedly.)
I've never used imovie, so I couldn't speak to the how the 2009 version might be superior to the 2008 version. You might want to check with folks who have more iLife iExperience. :-)
For one thing, it strips out all of the PowerPC leftovers, so you regain around 6GB of harddrive space just by installing it. It also is supposed to use the 64-bit file architecture, which lets your computer use RAM more efficiently, and may (although I might be misinterpreting this bit) let you install more RAM.
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Date: 2009-08-25 01:29 am (UTC)Hmm... That's just not fair :) I'll have to think about changing it..
do tell!
Date: 2009-08-27 02:15 am (UTC)Re: do tell!
Date: 2009-08-27 02:53 am (UTC)Re: do tell!
Date: 2009-08-27 03:04 am (UTC)Re: do tell!
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