the lion, the jobs, and the air

first of all, a very happy chrirstmas to anyone reading this, and secondly, apologies for my 3 month absence on the site, its been a busy time with piano school and girls, but i promise to get back to my roots for 2011 << new years resolution right there.
well where to start, firstly there was an apple event back on the 20th of october which saw the introduction of ilife 11, which i'll go into a bit of detail for. the three apps updated are garageband, iphoto, and imovie, and i'll start with garageband. you've now got flexi time, which SHOULD allow you to sync up all your tracks if any are out of time, but this feature also wrecks some of your compositions, so its not for the faint hearted. theres also a clean up of the UI, but theres no star studded feature here, just minors.
the update to iphoto was welcome for many, but its been slated as some of the worst software apple have ever brought out on OSX. it was tooted to feature new card making options and the ability to run everything in full screen, and the promise of facebook integration. and while they've changed the feel of iphoto abit you'd expect minor changes like this to be free, its not worth your money. luckily, imovie also got an update, and i'm glad to say it got quite a few improvements. theres now the option to make movie trailers (which is pretty amazing) and audio adjustments are much easier, as are transitions and effects on video.
apple also showed of OSX 10.7, 'lion'. they only managed to show off a couple of features, which seemed general UI improvements and a new kind of expose, where your applications folder looks much more like your scrolling through an ipad (theres even folders). i was reminded by a friend of mine that bringing 'folders' to a computer is nothing too special. i'm clearly addicted to my apple pie. anyway, lion will be around next summer, so if your thinking of buying a mac, please wait till then, you'll even get a free ipod touch on your travels.
the macbook air was the 'one more thing', and it showed the inclusion of an 11.6" model aswell as the 13.3", so apple are dipping there fingers into netbook territory, but personally, if the ipads not a netbook, i don't know what is. clock speeds range from 1.4ghz-2.13ghz, and all come with that disappointing 2gb of ram. the nvidia 320m should help with on the go gaming and the inclusion of SSD'S throughout the new airs mean 13 second boot ups... its just silly, considering all this is in a 1cm casing, and it'll outperform my imac which is about 2 inches thick and 21 inches diagonally. yes, that annoys me.
so finally, i'll mention mr.jobs, who won the 'person of the year' award from the financial times. welldone.
i'm off for a quick session on resident evil 4 now, before some christmas lunch. one again, have a good christmas, and i'll see you in january for a facetime, USB packing, Retina iPad. minus the usb and retina ofcourse ;)