…Apple announced a boatload of goodies: 

• new aluminum framed iMacs with a smaller enclosure, lower prices, and faster processors
• new iLife software with an updated iPhoto (allowing Aperture-esque grouping of photos), a totally new iMovie that supports new HD formats (like AVCHD, the emerging HD camcorder standard) as well as a far improved organization system for movies, and updates to iWeb, iDVD, and Garage Band
• new iWork suite with a refreshed Keynote (an excellent PowerPoint alternative), an updated Pages word processor (we’ll see how good this is), and the new Numbers spreadsheet.

I’ve ordered iLife and iWork ‘08. The trial version of Pages seems fairly slick. It is able to import Word documents flawlessly, even pulling in the track changes information. The main barrier for adoption for me is lack of Endnote compatibility (though Endnote is terrible…I’d be happy to switch to something else if anything works reasonably well).

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