Apple’s keynote on Tuesday left fans both disappointed and frustrated since no new iMacs or Mac Mini’s were introduced, and most of the keynote was spent on the iLife/iWork upgrades. I for one was completely content with the announcement. I love iLife and use iPhoto and iTunes everyday. iWork has also taken a seat as my business suite, in which I don’t need to have Office installed any longer (something I tell new Mac users, which they don’t seem to really get for some reason).

iLife 09: The real beef of this upgrade is iMovie 09. As many complaints about how iMovie 08 took a step backwards, this version should shut them up. iMovie 08 only lacked some theming which gave your movie some polish on the ends but there were only a few and they got tired quickly. iMove 09 is largely a feature upgrade, but it’s the way the features were handled that take this way past a simple “look at all the new effects I can add”.

Features like, Image stablization- this takes your crappy, jittery movie and stabilizes it so it becomes watchable. This is a pre

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MacWorld ’08 happens all week but today is the big day in which Apple makes its big product announcements during its keynote. I don’t ‘rumorize’ anything, but I tend read a lot of them. I think the ones that seem likely to me are new iMacs, MacMini and a new iLife suite.

Some long shots I think are updates to AppleTV, I dont know why, I think mostly because the above will take so long to go over I don’t think they would add this into the program. If its updated, it wont be a big deal (am I now rumorizing?). Some people think iLife will be turned into web apps - not only is that a stupid idea its one that would take a ton of resources and time to build out. Considering MobileMe which is pretty standard in this day and age of web apps, they had a hard time launching that and they still are hardly great web apps. John Gruber also said, which I completely agree with, that what makes iLife so great is they are applications that work great on the OS X platform.

I personally am looking forward to an updated iMove, which after really spending some time with I actually really like - its pretty damn fun to make a movie in there. Only the clip and event area need a lot of help. Very unorganized even when I try to organize them which you really cant.

iPhoto needs some help to - If you have a lot of images, viewing photos sorted by Events (not Events View) really slows it down to a halt - where each click is returns a spinning ball. This is on my G5 with 3GB of ram, which is really plenty and is plenty fast. I dont use iDVD or Garage Band to know if those need help. I’d say iDVD can either get dropped or get a makeover like iMovie since burning your movies to DVD is getting old - and iDVD was as slow as paint drying.

Check out MacWorld at MacRumors Live.

UPDATE: Looks like iWork 09 was “anounced” by mistake from the Apple website. TUAW discovered a download link from Apples software site.

Tags: keynote, ILife