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This post was written by Mary Joseff
Apple’s iLife suite comes free with each new Mac sold, but is also available as a standalone package. iLife ‘08 is something of a mixed bag. Of the two heavily-reworked apps, iPhoto and iMovie, iPhoto is an improvement; it’s easier to use and with something for the more serious photo editor as well as the beginner. iMovie is not going to win friends with enthusiast users of earlier versions, but may pick up a few newcomers to the genre.
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Apple’ AirPort Extreme is just about as different from your typical wireless router as it is possible to imagine. Apple’s take on 802.11n wireless is both interesting and unusual and holds plenty of appeal if you’re mixing Apple and Windows hardware in an unholy alliance. It’s a shame that you can’t use the USB printing and storage features together, but presumably this would have increased the price. Configuring the router reveals yet another unusual aspect to the AirPort Extreme.
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Apple’s 20-inch Cinema display is a fabulous widescreen TFT that looks great and performs superbly. You can tilt the display but you can’t adjust the height, and that’s a distinct deficiency in a screen at this price. As for the rest of the specification, the brightness rating of 250cd/m2 is fairly low and the contrast ratio is 400:1 but the real surprise is the response time of 14ms which looks very slow compared to the current crop of 8ms and 4ms TFTs.
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It is hard to view Apple Mac OS X v 10.5 Leopard as much of an advance on Tiger. The interface improvements are a mixture of ‘great’ and ‘meh’, while the new features don’t add much beyond tweaks to your daily workflow. The feature with the ability to really blow you away – Spaces – is switched off by default. Whilst Leopard will undoubtedly sell tonnes of copies, it’s hard not to feel that, given the system’s delay and hype, Apple has delivered too little too late – with too many bugs, to boot.
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Apple iPod Shuffle (2nd Generation) is a lightweight portable device. Its dimension are about 1.62 x 1.07x 0.41 and it weights about 0.55 ouches. With these sizes, you can take this digital player anywhere with you. It can become your traveling buddy, your exercising buddy and even your “chilling” out buddy. A nice feature that is added to it is a clip. With this clip you do not have to worry about what you will do if your clothes do not have a pocket that is large enough to keep it safely inside.
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For many, Apple’s iPod Nano makes up for some of the shortcomings of the iPod Shuffle. The unit delivers a wealth of sound and the 1.5 inch color LCD screen is bright and exceedingly clear. The iPod Nano does not feature an FM tuner, so no listening to and certainly no recording of radio. It lacks user-replaceable batteries. But perhaps the biggest issue is the position of the headphone jack and the dock connector/USB plug on the unit. Another drawback according to reviewers is the price of the Nano compared to other similar units.
