iTunes 8 review


It’s here. First impressions from this reviewer are that, unlike with the first iteration of iTunes 7, you don’t risk taking on a serious performance downturn when you upgrade. I didn’t find iTunes 8 any slower or less responsive than the last version, but that in itself isn’t a recommendation. You see, iTunes 7 was a resource hog that really needed to be faster and to respond quicker, on both PC and Mac.

iTunes 8 continues the tradition of an ever-expanding feature set being far more important to Apple than making a piece of software that, when you click on a button, acts immediately—or, when loading up or shutting down, does so quickly. Don’t expect speed improvements. That said, the software on the Mac still weighs in at less than 40Mb of hard drive space—impressive, when you think the likes of Microsoft Office are now so huge that they’re on the verge of requiring you to dedicate an entire hard drive of modern proportions to just the one program.

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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

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