iLife '04 Multi-User Family Pack [OLD VERSION]

by Apple

Product Features

• Includes iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, and GarageBand music application
• Use iLife to have more fun with digital media
• Easily create professional-quality slideshows, music, movies, and DVDs
• Seamless integration--iLife applications work together better than ever before
• Single installer that updates all existing iLife applications

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0001A9MZS
• Item model number: M9466LL/A
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 16, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 1.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #24,076 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

iLife '04 gathers the latest versions of iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, and iDVD and the new GarageBand music application in one convenient package with tremendous integration. Customers can use iLife to have more fun with digital media. Powerful new features let them manage music and easily create professional-quality slideshows, music, movies, and DVDs.

Key features include:

• The latest application releases: iLife includes powerful new versions of iPhoto, iMovie, and iDVD, as well as the latest release of iTunes and the new GarageBand music creation app.
• Seamless integration: The iLife applications now work together better than ever before. iMovie accesses iTunes and iPhoto media libraries, and it can output projects directly to iDVD.
• Single installer: iLife features a single installer that updates all existing iLife applications.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Crashes constantly, March 13, 2004

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Chris Adamson "invalidname" (Grand Rapids, MI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: iLife '04 Multi-User Family Pack [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

This is a huge step back for Apple's iApps, particularly iPhoto, which is an absolute disaster in this release. We typically cannot launch iPhoto without crashing unless we trash three catalog files. Importing more than once a day is impossible - the app says it cannot access .../iPhoto Library/month/date the second time you try to import.

Add to that the continued game of keep-away with iDVD, which will not work with external DVD burners. If you bought anything less than the highest-end Macs, or models like the Cube or iBook that have never had built-in DVD burners as an option, well, too darn bad! Kind of obviates the coolness of FireWire when peripherals are deliberately not supported by Apple.

Crashing and losing user data is NEVER acceptable. Apple, more than anyone, is supposed to know this. The company should be absolutely ashamed of this pathetic product, and should not offer it for sale until they work out the bugs and stop being such jerks about DVD burning.

3 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars great product but lousy license, February 24, 2004

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Peter Carpenter (Atherton, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: iLife '04 Multi-User Family Pack [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

The the 10.3 Family Pack and the iLife Family Pack license have exactly the same language -

"as long as those computers are located in the same household and used by persons who occupy that same household".

For those who respect intellectual property and read their licenses carefully, this means that the 10.3 Family Pack cannot be installed on a Powerbook which then is taken outside the same household nor on another Mac located at another of your personal residences. Apple has confirmed that this is the correct interpretation of their license language.

All Apple had to do with both Family Pack licenses is change "located in the same household and used by" to"located in the same household OR used by".

Unfortunately the lawyers cannot seem to agree with that simple change so don't waste your money on the Family Pack unless you can comply with the license or choose to ignore it.

3 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Superb product but lousy license, February 4, 2004

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Peter Carpenter (Atherton, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: iLife '04 Multi-User Family Pack [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

The iLife Family Pack license has exactly the same language as the Panther family pack -

"as long as those computers are located in the same household and used by persons who occupy that same household".

For those who respect intellectual property and read their licenses carefully, this means that the Family Pack iLife cannot be installed on a Powerbook which then is taken outside the same household nor on another Mac located at another of your personal residences. Apple has confirmed that this is the correct interpretation of their license language.

All Apple had to do with both Family Pack licenses is change
"located in the same household and used by" to
"located in the same household OR used by".

Unfortunately the lawyers cannot seem to agree with that simple change so don't waste your money on the Family Pack unless you can comply with the license or choose to ignore it.