Luckymonkey

My replacement MBP came with iLife08 - brilliant. Time to give this new movie editing program a bit of a workout, and see if those people who think it’s a massive step backwards are right - or if its ease of use outweighs any missing features..

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I’ve discovered these over the past few months, and you begin to wonder how you lived without them..

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(I’m sure the answer to this one is certainly, of course it is, duh). If I had a category for ‘wild speculation, this would certainly be in there, but i’ve been thinking about this, and then I read this TUAW post this morning about iTunes *and* the Apple store being down at the same time.

What *if* the 2 week press time for DVDs which some sites seem to be concerned about (that I can’t find the links to right now) doesn’t actually matter. What if they were going to push Leopard using iTunes and Software update for existing ITMS / 10.4 customers?

From listening to MacBreak Weekly yesterday, the current version of Leopard isn’t quite ready for prime time yet - it would give them a couple more weeks to work on it and make their intended ship date..

Just a thought..

(previously on Luckymonkey - 5 weeks missing)

Tomorrow will be the 5th of October. That makes it 12 weeks since I handed my MacBook Pro over to the Genius at my ‘local’ Apple store. Initially the machine went in for a replacement screen, after something crawled behind the LCD, in front of the backlight and passed away. They would replace the screen under warranty - brilliant.
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