Apple Announces iLife ’04

MARKHAM, Ontario—January 6, 2004—Apple® today announced iLife™ ’04, the nextgeneration of Apple’s award-winning suite of digital lifestyle applications.iLife ’04 features major new versions of iPhoto™, iMovie® and iDVD™ andintroduces GarageBand™, a revolutionary new music application that turns aMac® into a professional-quality musical instrument and recording studio formusicians and aspiring musicians alike. iLife ’04 also features therecently-released iTunes® 4.2, the world’s best digital music jukeboxsoftware. iLife ’04 leads the industry in allowing consumers to easilyorganize their photos, manage their music collection, create movies, authorDVDs and now create music.

“With iLife ’04, Apple is taking another leap far ahead of its PCcompetitors in offering the most innovative software for organizing andcreating digital music, photos and movies,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO.“And now GarageBand does for music creation what iMovie did for video andiPhoto did for photos—makes the creative process easy and affordable foreveryone. Over half of U.S. households have at least one member whocurrently plays a musical instrument, so we think GarageBand is going tofind a very receptive audience.”

GarageBand turns the Mac into a complete recording studio, allowing bothnovice and seasoned musicians alike to easily play, record and createamazing music using a remarkably simple interface. With GarageBand, recordedperformances, digital audio and looping tracks can easily be arranged andedited like building blocks to create a song. GarageBand comes with morethan 50 software instruments, including a premium-quality grand piano, thatcan be played and recorded with any USB or MIDI music keyboard. Over 1,000professionally pre-recorded audio loops can be combined to make completesongs or backing tracks. Vocals and live instruments such as guitars can berecorded digitally via microphone or analog input. All these tracks can beedited and mixed together with over 200 pro-quality effects presets,including pro-quality effects such as reverb and echo, and the built-inexpertise of professional recording engineers. With GarageBand’s advancedmodeling technology, guitar players have access to some of the most reveredvintage amplifier sounds with six guitar amps, including clean jazz, arenarock and British invasion. GarageBand can also export completed songs toiTunes for burning to CD, encoding in MP3 or high quality AAC, transfer toiPod™ or for use in the other iLife applications.

iPhoto 4 now lets users scroll through and resize up to 25,000 photos inseconds to find exactly the photo they’re looking for. New time-based photoorganization gives users even easier access to their photos, and SmartAlbums automatically organizes photos based on date, keyword or the user’sown rating. New slideshows include cinematic transitions and controls forrotating, rating and deleting photos on the fly. With Rendezvous™ photosharing, photos can easily be shared between computers across home networks.

iMovie 4 features editing directly in the timeline to make movie creationeasier and faster. Users can select and edit multiple clips simultaneouslyto modify and render clips faster and more efficiently. With graphical audiowaveforms and live audio scrubbing, users can find specific edit points inaudio tracks, and alignment guides make it easy to precisely sync video andaudio. Live video can be imported directly from an iSight™ camera to theclips panel. iMovie 4 also makes it simple to share movies over the Internetvia email or web with a .Mac HomePage, and users can take movies with themwhen they travel with a compatible Bluetooth mobile phone or PDA.

iDVD 4 includes 20 new Hollywood-style themes, many with intro movies andsub-menus, that can be personalized with music, photos and movies for trulyoriginal DVDs. Movies from iMovie, photos from iPhoto and music from iTunesor GarageBand can be added directly to a DVD via the media browser, andenhanced photo slideshows can include cinematic transitions and iTunesplaylists. The DVD Map provides an overview of entire DVD projects, andprofessional-quality encoding can fit over two hours of video on a singleDVD.

iLife ’04 also includes the latest version of iTunes, the world’s bestdigital music jukebox software. iTunes allows users to import music fromCDs, organize and mix the music in their digital music libraries into customplaylists, burn custom CDs or take their entire music collection with themon their iPod. The iTunes digital music jukebox software and market-leadingiPod portable digital music player provide a complete solution for musicfans to manage and listen to their digital music collections anywhere.

Pricing & Availability
iLife ’04 will be available on January 16 for a suggested retail price of$59 (CDN) through the Apple Store® (www.apple.com/canadastore) and AppleAuthorized Resellers. The iLife ’04 applications will also be included withall new Macs. An iLife Up-To-Date upgrade package is available to allcustomers who purchase a new Mac on or after January 6 that does not includeiLife ’04. The iLife Up-To-Date package is available for a shipping andhandling fee of $26 (CDN). iTunes version 4.2 is currently available as afree download at www.apple.com.

iLife requires Mac OS® X v10.2.6 or later, QuickTime® 6.4 or later, aMacintosh® computer with PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor, 256MB or morephysical RAM and a 1024x768 or larger display. A 600 MHz G3 processor orfaster is required for GarageBand and a G4 or G5 processor is required forGarageBand software instruments. An Apple SuperDrive™ or 733 MHz G4processor is required for iDVD and a SuperDrive is required to burn DVDs.

Apple Canada Inc. is headquartered in Markham, Ontario and is a wholly-ownedsubsidiary of Apple Computer, Inc. Apple products are available at morethan 450 Authorized Apple Canada Dealer locations across Canada.

Press Contact:
Tara Hendela
Apple Canada
(905) 513-5853
thendela@apple.com