iLife ’09 Shipping 28 January

AUCKLAND, New Zealand—27 January 2009—Apple today announced that iLife ’09 will be shipping tomorrow, 28 January, and features major upgrades to iPhoto, iMovie and GarageBand, with breakthrough new ways to organise and manage photos, create movies and learn to play music. iLife ’09 is included with every new Mac and is available as a NZ$179 inc GST upgrade for existing users through the Apple Store (www.apple.co.nz) and Apple Authorised Resellers.

iPhoto ’09 builds on the ability to automatically organise photos into Events by adding Faces and Places as innovative new ways to easily organise and manage your photos using face detection, face recognition and GPS geo-tagging technologies. iMovie ’09 expands on the revolutionary super fast movie creation introduced in iMovie ’08 by adding the depth users want through powerful easy-to-use new features such as the incredible new Precision Editor, video stabilisation, advanced drag and drop, and animated travel maps. GarageBand ’09 introduces a whole new way to help you learn to play piano and guitar with 18 basic lessons and optional lessons from top artists such as Sara Bareilles, John Fogerty, Norah Jones and Ben Folds.

iLife ’09 also includes iWeb; ’09 for authoring custom websites and iDVD ’09 for creating DVDs. iWeb ’09 adds new iWeb Widgets, such as iSight video and photos, a countdown timer, YouTube video and RSS feeds. New integrated FTP publishing allows you to publish your website to virtually any hosting service and updates to your site can now be automatically added to your Facebook profile.

You can see step-by-step demonstrations of iLife ’09 features by browsing more than 70 video tutorials at www.apple.co.nz/ilife/tutorials.

Pricing & Availability
iLife ’09 will be shipping 28 January for a recommended retail price of NZ$179 inc GST through the Apple Store (www.apple.co.nz) and Apple Authorised Resellers. The iLife Up-To-Date upgrade package is available to all customers who purchased a qualifying new Mac system from Apple or an Apple Authorised Reseller on or after 6 January 2009 for a shipping and handling fee of NZ$19 RRP inc GST. The iLife ’09 Family Pack includes five licenses and will be available for NZ$249 inc GST and the Mac Box Set which includes iLife ’09, iWork ’09 and Mac OS X v10.5.6 Leopard will be available for NZ$419 inc GST. Artist Lessons are sold separately through the GarageBand Lesson Store for NZ$10.99 inc GST each.

iLife ’09 requires Mac OS X version 10.5.6 or later, a Macintosh computer with an Intel processor, a PowerPC G5 or 867 MHz or faster PowerPC G4, 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended), QuickTime 7.5.5 or later (included), a DVD drive for installation and 4GB of available disk space. iPhoto print services and GarageBand Artist Lessons are available in select countries. Full system requirements and more information on iLife ’09 can be found at www.apple.co.nz/ilife.

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Apple
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Rob Small
Apple
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