In what the company has said will be its last Macworld Expo keynote ever, Apple on Tuesday announced updates to its iLife and iWork suites while unveiling a 17-inch MacBook Pro that now mirrors the unibody design of the rest of Apple's laptop line.

Tuesday's keynote was delivered by Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, instead of Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Apple announced last month that Jobs would not deliver this year's keynote and that the company would not attend future Macworld Expos. Whether it was Jobs' absence from the keynote stage or Apple's ambivalence about the annual Mac trade event, this year's keynote lacked a major product introduction like the 2008 unveiling of the ultra-thin MacBook Air laptop or the iPhone's memorable debut in 2007.

Instead, Schiller focused largely on updating existing products. His 98-minute keynote led off with iLife '09, the latest version of Apple's suite of digital lifestyle applications.

Highlighting the changes to the iPhoto photo management and editing application are Faces and Places tools for organizing photos around people and locations, respectively. The Faces feature uses facial-recognition technology to identify the faces of people in the photos you take. iPhoto '09 also adds integration with the Facebook and Flickr social networking sites.

iLife '09 also includes updates to iMovie, which adds an expanded timeline view for advanced users as well as automatic video stabilization, and GarageBand, which focuses on video tutorials.

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While iLife '09 won't ship until the end of the month, the newly updated iWork suite of productivity applications is available now. All three components--the Keynote presentation application, the Pages writing and page-layout offering, and the Numbers spreadsheet tool--get new features.

Apple also launched a new service, iWork.com, that lets users share and collaborate with documents online. The service is integrated into iWork '09 as a button in the toolbar of each application. iWork.com launched Tuesday a public beta.

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Both iLife and iWork sell for $79, with Family Packs of each suite available for $99. Apple is also bundling the two suites with Leopard and selling them as part of a $169 Mac Box Set. The bundle will be available in late January when iLife ships.

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