Wow. That was one of the longest installs ever. Over half an hour, easy. And for some reason, iDVD 3 didn’t bother to update to 4. I had to go in and manually erase my copy of iDVD 3, then run the installer again and choose custom and check iDVD 4 to get it to install (which again took an insane amount of time).
After installation was complete, the first launch of each program took quite a while, especially iPhoto, which had to update the photo library to make it compatible with the new version (probably in the neighborhood of 6-10 minutes to update my 974 photo library).
iPhoto is much faster now than it was, though not as screamingly fast on my 12-inch as it was for Steve on his G5 demo machine at MWSF. But in comparison to its spinning beach-ball response in the days before this update, it is screamingly fast. So, cool.
iMovie looks to be more or less the same as it has been, although I didn’t try any of the new editing tricks yet.
iTunes didn’t update.
iDVD is much cooler. Runs more smoothly and has a slew of new cool looking templates. Still, I wish Apple offered some sort of iDVD template builder app, so you could further customize things.
GarageBand is very cool, although I was hoping I could ‘play’ the software instruments via my 12-inch’s keyboard as with other software synths, but unfortunately, if you do not have a USB/MIDI keyboard plugged in, it would appear that your only alternative is the floating keyboard menu. Not too user friendly, that one. However, I cannot wait to get home and plug my guitar into my Mac. THAT will be COOL.
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