Look- I know this is going to sound like the same song and dance, but I can’t help but hear another nail in the coffin. Today Apple held their Back to the Mac event where we learned that they spared a little time to update iLife and OS X. Fine, that’s unfair. The demo was fairly impressive on both accounts. iMovie is turning into Final Cut lite with each iteration, and that’s a good thing. I still can’t figure out why someone hasn’t managed to arrive at something at least close to iMovie on the Windows side of the pasture. Between that and iDVD, iPhoto, and Garageband, there’s really just no competing with the iLife suite. It’s almost worth owning a Mac just for those applications alone. Microsoft has really tried with Windows Live, but it just seems to pale in comparison. Apple, of course, has a long-standing history with the creative community, and perhaps the iLife suite owes much to this influence. Read the rest of this entry »