So is it worth the $50 upgrade or should I just wait for the next
version of OS X?

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 18:03:00 -0800, Jason Carucci wrote
(in message <290120042102594875%jcarucci@yahoo.com>):

> So is it worth the $50 upgrade or should I just wait for the next
> version of OS X?

Macintouch has some.

But I think I can summarize it:
Do you use iDVD or iMovie? Do you have a large iPhoto library? Do you want to 
play with GarageBand?

If so, it's worth upgrading. $50 isn't much for all four applications. 
(iTunes does not count; that's available for free.)

In article <290120042102594875%jcarucci@yahoo.com>, Jason Carucci
<jcarucci@yahoo.com> wrote:

> So is it worth the $50 upgrade or should I just wait for the next
> version of OS X?

Well, first of all, it is unlikely that it will be bundled with the
next version of the OS -- Apple only mentioned retail purchase and
bundled with new hardware.

If you find the current iPhoto slow, then the performance improvements
there might be worth the $50 all by themselves. I think that GarageBand
is well worth the $50, even if nothing else had changed. The iMovie
enhancements are nice, but (at least i.m.o.) relatively minor. The iDVD
improvements, though, are major -- the new encoder is great and the
improved menuing + the map are kick-ass.

-- 
Spenser

I use iPhoto and iDVD (and of course iTunes), but I've upgraded to
Final Cut Express for video editing.  I was having problems with my
iPhoto library being too big, so I just divided it up into different
libraries with iPhoto Librarian.  Now it looks like they've addressed
this problem.  Is it possible to combine these separate libraries into
one without losing any information?

In article <290120041827042699%dogbreath@chaseabone.com.invalid>, sbt
<dogbreath@chaseabone.com.invalid> wrote:

> In article <290120042102594875%jcarucci@yahoo.com>, Jason Carucci
> <jcarucci@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > So is it worth the $50 upgrade or should I just wait for the next
> > version of OS X?
> 
> Well, first of all, it is unlikely that it will be bundled with the
> next version of the OS -- Apple only mentioned retail purchase and
> bundled with new hardware.
> 
> If you find the current iPhoto slow, then the performance improvements
> there might be worth the $50 all by themselves. I think that GarageBand
> is well worth the $50, even if nothing else had changed. The iMovie
> enhancements are nice, but (at least i.m.o.) relatively minor. The iDVD
> improvements, though, are major -- the new encoder is great and the
> improved menuing + the map are kick-ass.

In article <290120041827042699%dogbreath@chaseabone.com.invalid>,
 sbt <dogbreath@chaseabone.com.invalid> wrote:

> In article <290120042102594875%jcarucci@yahoo.com>, Jason Carucci
> <jcarucci@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > So is it worth the $50 upgrade or should I just wait for the next
> > version of OS X?
> 
> Well, first of all, it is unlikely that it will be bundled with the
> next version of the OS -- Apple only mentioned retail purchase and
> bundled with new hardware.
> 
> If you find the current iPhoto slow, then the performance improvements
> there might be worth the $50 all by themselves. I think that GarageBand
> is well worth the $50, even if nothing else had changed. The iMovie
> enhancements are nice, but (at least i.m.o.) relatively minor. The iDVD
> improvements, though, are major -- the new encoder is great and the
> improved menuing + the map are kick-ass.

It depends on how you use iMovie, but for me, the changes are a very big 
deal.  I've been making amateur music videos.  And the ability to drop 
clips anywhere on the timeline is a big win.  As is the ability to 
adjust the length of a clip by dragging, as opposed to the old "remove a 
few frames; oops!; undo" approach.  And the performance of transitions 
and other editing feels a whole lot faster.

-- 
Hank Shiffman                                  http://www.disordered.org
Have Opinion, Will Travel                            hank@disordered.org
Mountain View, California