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| Apple iWork '08 | 
 enlarge | From: Apple
Category: Software
List Price: $74.00
Buy New: $59.95
You Save: $14.05 (19%)
New (15) Used (5) from $53.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  114 reviews
Sales Rank: 35
Format: Dvd-rom
Platform: Mac Os X
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.8
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5.3 x 0.8
MPN: MB624Z/A
Model: MB624Z/A
UPC: 885909244300
EAN: 0885909244300
ASIN: B000BQXTSS
Release Date: August 11, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Another Peach by Apple December 29, 2007
It's Apple, it's awesome and it works....what more can I say. It is everything you would expect.
What a lot for the money! December 22, 2007
This is a real buy with so many complete programs included. I really enjoy using Keynote, Pages and Numbers. I think you will too.
Leave Microsoft behind... December 18, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Although I still have Office for Mac on my computer, I'm finding the only thing I use it for is to print envelopes with bar codes in Word. Hopefully, that functionality will get added to Pages in an update. With the exception of a few spreadsheets with custom macros, I have been able to migrate totally to Numbers. I moved off Entourage completely and went to OS X apps like Address Book and Mail. With the new Leopard release, I haven't missed any functionality at all. No more freezes in Entourage email!
Wonderful software December 18, 2007
I mostly use Pages on my new iMac after using Quark, Word and Pagemaker in the past in my work. I am finding this easy to use and the price was right!
iWork '08 is worth it's weight in gold December 17, 2007
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
I've reviewed iWork in the past, and have always thought it was well worth the $79 asking price. However, with iWork '08, these applications have become MUCH more valuable to me.
Some context: I am a marketing executive by day, and an independent writer by night. During working hours, I use Pages to create whitepapers, sell sheets, and other items that we used to have to outsource to a designer for a few $K each. Pages makes documents look so professional, we've been able to take most of this work in house. In fact - I do it myself, and it takes less of my day to do it myself than it would take for me to manage the outsourced help. ages is just easy to use, and creates fantastic looking documents.
I use Keynote when I give presentations myself, but use Powerpoint normally (because no one else has Keynote, and I don't want to have to keep converting files). Keynote opens powerpoints fine, so I can watch/present a presentation without having to have Parallels open. It exports well to powerpoint, too, so I can work in Keynote exclusively if I want to: for example, when working on a plane and tryin to conserve battery life by NOT running windows side-by-side with OS X.
Similarly, spreadsheets open fine - but I'm a marketing guy, so I may not be the best judge of number-stuff.
For my alter-ego as a wannabe writer, I use iWork even more. I wrote, edited, designed and produced by newest novel (Cluck: Murder Most Fowl) entirely using Pages '08. For anyone who has written a book, this means not only writing 100,000+ words, but it also means re-write upon re-write. I tracked nearly thrity minor drafts of my manuscript through the life of the project. Some points about Pages:
1. It handled the large files easily. Scrolling through 300+ pages was fluid on a MacBook Pro. Even when the illustrations were put in place (27 individual 400dpi images) the file remained easy to manipulate.
2. The spelling & grammar checks work better than expected. Of course, you can't rely on these, but they are a necessary aide when dealing with massive amounts of text. The 'proofread' function was markedly better than MS Word's grammar check, although I missed an "ignore this rule" button.
3. Searching for certain words seemed to miss results on occasion, especially when the text was formatted specially or the search term contained punctuation (I submitted this as a bug to Apple, and it will likely be resolved in a future revision)
4. Pages was able to create a print-ready .pdf easily without requiring any extra software. The high-resolution of the images was preserved (I worried about this, since the app handled them so easily in-line I figured maybe they' been downsampled), ad all formatting remained intact.
5. Sepaking of formatting: I was able to design the interior block of Cluck: Murder Most Fowl with absolute precision, and I was also able to adjust the design along the way with little effort.
The bottom line is that Pages '08 is even better at producing quality, professional-looking and print-ready documents than the original Pages. Cluck is "searchable inside" (or will be, soon) so you can see for yourself how Pages can produce results.
Keynote
I also use Keynote for personal uses other than corporate presentations. Interestingly enough, Keynote '08 has been critical to me in the development of promotional videos for my book. Now, I'm no move director, but with Keynote I can:
* animate objects along a path
* chose from a variety of quality transitions
* imbed movie files (AVI files from my Flip Video Camcorder: 60-Minutes (Black) )
* add text (again, with great font handling)
* control the timing of everything
* export to .mov videos
I was able to create some great-looking (well, I am an amateur, but I think they look great) videos, with hardly ay effort (and about 30 minutes, tops). If you want to see for yourself, you can find them on YouTube is you search around for "cluck" and/or "book promo".
Overall, I would recommend iWork '08 to anyone who needs professional results but isn't professionally trained ad/or who lacks the serious $$$ required to purchase more "professional" tools. The applications are easy to use, well-integrated with the "Mac experience", and produce amazing results. All for small change.
In the business world, iWork has what it takes to bring smaller projects in-house, which could save huge amounts of budget money AND save time.
I would give this ten stars if I could.
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