iLife 09 SLOW install - normal?

[Minuteman3]

Greetings!!

Absolute newbie here ... be kind!!

Just received my Air on Wednesday ($999 refurb HD, Rev A) and I am very impressed so far. It fits the need I have for this machine perfectly!!

Question -- I also have the Air's SuperDrive and the iLife '09 that came in the box. Install seems to take a really long time!! Probably close to an hour or so. Is this normal for Mac's (I'm a Windows guy most of the time) or the Air? I could sort of understand if I was using a wireless connection and the shared drive ... but this one's hooked up to the USB port!!

Thanks in advance.

Ken

 

[dborja]

Congrats on your new Air!

That's interesting; it only took mine about 30 minutes using Remote Disk...

 

[elppa]

$999?

Greetings!!

Absolute newbie here ... be kind!!

Just received my Air on Wednesday ($99 refurb HD, Rev A) and I am very impressed so far. It fits the need I have for this machine perfectly!!

Where can you get $99 rev. a Airs?

 

[MorningZ]

it was about an hour on my Air with Superdrive...

none the less, how fast/slow it is doesn't matter as it's a one time thing... does it work is another question

As for iLife, and specifically iPhoto.... using that program over my wireless network (which is g) managing photos on a share on another computer is painfully slow and sluggish.... putting the air on the network with the ethernet cable solved that issue

 

[Minuteman3]

it was about an hour on my Air with Superdrive...

none the less, how fast/slow it is doesn't matter as it's a one time thing... does it work is another question

As for iLife, and specifically iPhoto.... using that program over my wireless network (which is g) managing photos on a share on another computer is painfully slow and sluggish.... putting the air on the network with the ethernet cable solved that issue

Thanks for the idea ... I may go that way. My network is "N" but the speed differential isn't really all that great in real life. Luckily, this is not my main photo machine!!

Cheers!!

Ken

 

[mikey28]

I used my MBA superdrive and it took about 30min to install ilife. (Which, by the way, I really like the stuff that's been added!)

 

[jb60606]

started off saying it would take 1.5hrs to install. In the end, it took 30min on my MP with a very fast SSD and fresh install of Snow Leopard.

EDIT:

30min on MP (2008 Octo/2.8Ghz)
25-30min on MBP (2008 Penryn/2.4Ghz)
20min on MBA via Remote Disc over Wireless-N Network.