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Mac Box Set [OLD VERSION] | ![Mac Box Set [OLD VERSION]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/418as3QzcdL._SL500_.jpg) | From: Apple Computer Category: Software
Buy New: $198.99 as of 9/2/2010 23:53 CDT details
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Seller: Piyush Shah Rating: reviews Sales Rank: 829
Format: DVD-ROM Platforms: Mac, PowerMac, Mac OS X Media: DVD-ROM Autographed: No Memorabilia: No Operating System: mac_os_x Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5 Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5.3 x 1.1
MPN: MB997Z/A Model: MB997Z/A UPC: 400009416619 EAN: 0885909299867 ASIN: B001AMLPYM
Release Date: January 27, 2009 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Mac OS X LeopardThe world's most advanced operating system, Mac OS X v10.5.6 Leopard installs easily, works with the software and accessories you already have, and is packed with over 300 new features | | • | iLife '09 Get the most out of photos, movies, and music on your Mac. | | • | iWork '09Get everything you need to make impressive documents, spreadsheets, and presentations in minutes. |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description MAC BOX SET RETAIL-INT
Amazon.com Product Description Give your Mac the upgrades it deserves with the latest versions of the Apple software for your Mac--all in one box: Mac OS X v10.5.6 Leopard, the world's most powerful operating system; iLife '09, featuring the new iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, iWeb, and iDVD; and iWork '09, Apple's productivity suite including the new Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. It's the next best thing to getting a new Mac. The new Mac Box Set. Give your Mac the upgrades it deserves with the Mac Box Set. And save 40%. Get the latest versions of the Apple software for your Mac--all in one box: - Mac OS X v10.5.6 Leopard, the latest version of the world's most powerful operating system
- iLife '09, featuring the new iPhoto '09, iMovie '09, GarageBand '09, iWeb '09, and iDVD
- iWork '09, Apple's productivity suite for home and office including Pages '09, Numbers '09, and Keynote '09
Mac OS X Leopard. More fun. More productivity. More Mac. With Mac OS X Leopard, the world's most advanced operating system is now even better. Leopard is loaded with innovations--starting with an amazingly trouble-free installation if you're upgrading your Mac. Then it's never been easier to find, arrange, and share everything on your computer. Organize your files in stacks, browse files with Cover Flow, use Quick Look to preview files without even opening them, go back in time to restore old files with Time Machine, send email using personalized stationery, add effects to video chats, and much more. | Desktop Enjoy a gorgeous new look, with Stacks to keep your files organized. Finder Preview your files in the Finder and flip through them with Cover Flow. Quick Look View, play, or read the contents of a file without even opening it. Time Machine Automatically back up everything on your Mac and find old files. Spaces Group your windows in different spaces and quickly switch between them. | Mail Email personalized stationery, create to-do lists, and take notes. iChat Add effects to video chats and show off photos, movies, and presentations. Safari Surf the Internet using the fastest browser on the Mac. Parental Controls Make sure your kids have a safe experience using the computer. Boot Camp Run Windows software right on your Mac at native speed. | See the Mac OS X Leopard product page for more information.
iLife '09. Get the most out of your photos, movies, and music. iLife '09 makes it easier than ever to get the most out of the photos, movies, and music on your Mac. In iPhoto '09, you can organize and find your photos in two new ways: Faces, based on who is in your photos, and Places, based on where they were taken. iMovie '09 lets you make the movie you want in the time you have. With new themes, you can give your movie a professional look in seconds. Or use the new Precision Editor to fine-tune your masterpiece. With Basic Lessons in GarageBand '09, you can learn to play piano and guitar. And you can compose and record your own songs with new guitar amps and stompbox effects. iPhoto '09: Organize and search your photos by faces and places. Organize and find your photos in two new ways: Faces, based on who is in your photos, and Places, based on where you took them. With Faces, iPhoto automatically detects and even recognizes faces in your photos to help you organize and find photos by people. Places lets you search and sort photos by location, using data from a GPS-enabled camera or the camera on iPhone to categorize photos by location. iPhoto '09 also offers a number of great ways to share photos. Create an instant slideshow--complete with animated titles and captions. Publish them on your Facebook page and automatically notify Facebook friends. Or create a beautiful, professionally printed photo book, complete with photo-wrapped cover and matching dust jacket. iMovie '09: Create a movie in minutes or edit your masterpiece. Make a great movie in the time you have. Give your movie a professional look in seconds by applying Apple-designed themes with matching titles and transitions. You can even enhance your vacation videos by using eye-catching, animated travel maps. Refine your masterpiece with the new Precision Editor: Use the magnified filmstrip to make precise cuts--even reposition and adjust the duration of titles, transitions, and effects. With enhanced drag-and-drop editing, you can replace or insert clips using a single pop-up menu or even add cutaways, picture-in-picture, and green-screen effects. Smooth shaky clips with automatic video stabilization. And add further polish to your movie by choosing animated titles, transitions, and cinema-quality video effects from the new Preview Palette. GarageBand '09. Learn to play: Start a jam session. Record and mix your own song. Now you can learn to play an instrument right on your Mac. GarageBand '09 introduces Basic Lessons to help you learn piano and guitar. Interactive video lessons teach you the fundamentals at your own pace. And when you're ready, you can purchase an Artist Lesson and learn how to play a hit song from the artist who made it famous, including Sting, Fall Out Boy, Colbie Caillat, and others. With GarageBand '09, you can rock like a legend with new amps and stompbox effects that re-create the sound of legendary guitar rigs--right on your Mac. Jam with virtual instruments in Magic GarageBand Jam, using a new full-screen view that lets you mix, play along, and record. iWeb '09: Design, publish, and update your own websites just the way you want them. Now you can design, publish, and update your own websites just the way you want them. With iWeb '09, you can create a site quickly using Apple-designed themes and page templates. Then customize it by adding photos or movies and typing text into placeholders. You can also add dynamic, interactive widgets to your site, such as RSS feeds, HTML snippets, iSight photos and videos, or a countdown timer, using the handy iWeb Widget Browser. Ready to go live? Publish your site with one click to MobileMe. Or use built-in FTP publishing to publish your site to virtually any hosting service. With iWeb '09, you can even link your site to your Facebook account and automatically update your Facebook profile when you publish. iDVD: Hollywood-style DVDs made easy. Create your own DVD in less time than it takes to watch one. With iDVD, you can premiere your movies and photo slideshows on a professional-quality DVD with animated menus, buttons, scene selection, and more--all customizable to suit whatever you're sharing. Or you can use Magic iDVD. Choose from a collection of themes, select the movies and photos you want to feature, then have Magic iDVD automatically create a complete DVD project, with main menu, buttons, menus, and more, that's ready to burn and share with family and friends. See the iLife '09 product page for more information.
iWork '09. Documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. The Mac way. iWork '09, Apple's office productivity suite, is the easiest way to create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations the Mac way. Pages is both a streamlined word processor and an easy-to-use page layout application. It allows you to be a writer one minute and a designer the next, always with a perfect document in the works. Numbers, with its great-looking templates, easy-to-create formulas, and dynamic tables and charts, gives you simple ways to make sense of your data. Use Keynote to create your presentations, and you'll be a hard act to follow. Its powerful yet easy-to-use tools and dazzling effects put the show in slideshow. Packed with over 250 Apple-designed themes and templates--including 60 new designs overall--iWork lets you create projects that look polished from the first page or slide. And iWork is compatible with Microsoft Office, so it's easy to share your work. Pages '09: Creating the perfect brochure, flyer, report, or resume is faster and easier than ever. Pages is both a streamlined word processor and an easy-to-use page layout application. It starts with an enhanced Template Chooser that lets you skim more than 180 Apple-designed templates. You can easily create stunning documents, from a simple letter to a professionally polished resume to a multipage newsletter and more. Or start with a blank page and let your words and creativity take their own course. Reports, resumes, brochures, newsletters, invitations--whatever you write, Pages puts powerful tools at your fingertips. So you can create beautiful, media-rich documents in minutes. Numbers '09: Create spreadsheets, organize data, and write formulas with simple yet powerful tools. Plan a wedding. Save for retirement. Track your workouts. Keep a baby journal. Spreadsheets can help you organize and plan, and great-looking, Apple-designed templates will help you get started. Choose from 30 templates to use for home, work, and school. Tables are already made. Formulas have been figured out. Fonts are in place. They're all ready to go. Just find something you like and make it your own. If you're starting with a blank sheet, that's easy, too. Spreadsheets are built on a flexible, free-form canvas. So you can move tables, charts, graphics, and text anywhere you want on the page. Effortlessly create formulas using an intuitive browser with more than 250 functions. Add interactive controls such as sliders, steppers, and checkboxes that let you play "what if" in real time. Scale your document with a drag of the mouse to create the perfect printout using the interactive print view. You can even add photos, movies, and music to your spreadsheet with just a few clicks. Keynote '09: With great new features in Keynote, creating a show-stopping presentation is surprisingly simple. Even if you've never used Keynote before, you'll find creating a presentation surprisingly simple. An enhanced Theme Chooser lets you skim through an impressive collection of 44 Apple-designed themes. Once you've chosen the perfect canvas for your presentation, simply substitute placeholder text and graphics with your own words and images. Easy-to-use tools let you add elements such as tables, charts, shapes, photos, and videos to slides. Finish off your masterpiece with cinematic animations and transitions that look as though they were created by your own special effects team. With Keynote, you have all the tools you need to make an amazing presentation amazingly simple. See the iWork '09 product page for more information.
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| Customer Reviews:
Glad I upgraded October 27, 2009 Charles Provancher (Arlington, MA United States) I had put off upgrading my aging iMac G5 to Leopard for fear that I'd upset the apple cart, and because none of the features sounded like things I couldn't live without. (Time Machine? Sounds great, but I already have a serviceable automatic backup program.)
Then I finally had to upgrade in order to run a certain application for work. I'm glad I did.
The Cover Flow option brings the excellent user experience of iTunes to the desktop, letting you "flip" through large preview icons of all sorts of files. The ability to easily page through a PDF without opening it is another nice time-saver, especially if you have several documents that have similar cover sheets and might otherwise be hard to differentiate from one another as icons.
I was worried that the newer OS would run slow on my four-year-old 2GHz Mac, but I need not have worried. If anything, it seems speedier than Tiger and even seems to have resolved a few conflicts I had with the old OS.
Best of all, this bundle gave me an excuse to upgrade iLife, which I hadn't upgraded in at least three versions. I was impressed by so many of the more recent features in iPhoto, including a feature called Faces (which does a decent job of "learning" the names of who's in each photo) and another called Places, which lets me locate photos taken with a GPS-enabled camera on a map. Easy posting to Facebook is also a nice time-saver. The animated slide show templates that it provides are fun and turn your vacation photos into virtual scrapbooks.
I don't use the other iLife apps as much as iPhoto, but even a simple tour has left me inspired. The latest version of iDVD provides several very professional-looking user interfaces, or Themes, for your DVD. And GarageBand and iMovie look like a lot of fun to try out, if only I had the time.
I haven't taken the time to install any of the iWork applications, because I frankly don't think I'll use them: I'm locked into the Microsoft Office death-vice and rely on seamless compatibility with those applications.
Nevertheless, if you plan to take advantage of even a third of the hundreds of new features in the Mac Box Set, it would seem to be a worthwhile upgrade at a good price.
Amazon.com verus Apple store September 26, 2009 Susan Curtis "Sue" I was ready to buy the Mac Box Set (includes Mac OS X Leopard, iLife' 09, and iWork '09) from my Apple store to install the following week with my trainer. When I went to buy the Mac Box Set, Apple no longer had them to buy. I was so disapointed and upset.....
Decided to check Amazon.com. Not only did they have the one I needed but the price was $108.00 + free shipping.
WOW!!! $61.00 less than Apple. Same product with a price label on the box showing $169.00.
Thanks Amazon... Will always check your site before I buy anything in the future.
Susan C., California
Satisfying upgrade September 13, 2009 D. Brando (Ocoee, FL USA) I've been reluctant to upgrade my Mac to Leopard. I have a Power mac with a G5 processor & I didn't think that I would notice much of a difference from Tiger. I'm glad to say that I was wrong. The upgrade is worth it. It does take about 2 hours to upgrade the operating system, i life & i work and download all of the updates. After re-booting a few times after the downloads, you're ready to go. The OS just responds better & all of the ease of use functions, like cover flow make browsing & searching for files on the computer very easy. There are a couple of aesthetic changes in some frequently used apps like mail, but they're easy to adapt to. Spaces I'm sure will come in handy when working with multiple windows, I just have to remember to use it.
As for the i life & i work, the upgrades go smoothly. I photo is greatly improved with the faces & places feature. You find yourself going through all of your photos all over again tagging them with a location. This fun program suddenly seems a lot more fun. I web's added widget function will make building a web page just that more fun too. The only downside is that the garage band learn to play feature only seems to work with an intel based mac. My G5 won't cut it. Oh well.
The i work apps work as well as before. They have some added templates & features that make working with the programs fun. Work doesn't seem like work with these apps.
Overall, the upgrade was well worth it. The operating system is solid & the applications make using a Mac even more fun & inviting. I'm glad that I was able to get my hands on one before they were no longer available. Not paying retail also made me feel good too.
Wonderful September 12, 2009 A. Dunbar (Denver, CO) I've been using Tiger for so long, it seems. Installing this was such a great thing. It's faster, more up to date, more streamlined, and having the latest versions of Pages and iCal really makes my life easier, especially with iCal as I use my iPhone for all my scheduling these days. The newest version of iPhoto is great as it categorizes photos into "events" for easier location. Not only that, it uses facial recognition to categorize, if you desire, by people. This also allows you to include the person's full name and email addy in the information for direct upload to Facebook so that the photo is tagged. Quite intelligent.
Know Before You Install Leopard August 2, 2009 Jacques Laroque (Michigan USA) 5 out of 5 found this review helpful
It's very important when installing system upgrades (and new versions of software) to know beforehand what your intended goals and purpose are. This review may "apply" to some prospective buyers and not so much to others. Each Mac user has their own purpose and "philosophy" regarding these things. Mac OS X provides the full range, from beginner to professional, of utility - and at one price.
My situation: I have a Mac Pro (2007 model) with 4 internal hard drives and 5 GB RAM which I use primarily for personal and professional digital imaging (photography and photo restoration). I also have a full tool kit of digital imaging software: GraphicConverter, Photoshop CS, Photoshop Elements and other related applications.
My purpose: When Apple announced that OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) would be released in September (2009) priced at $29 for those running 10.5 (Leopard), I understood this is a key upgrade with technical improvements "under the hood" well worth having. But I was running 10.4 (Tiger), so I set out to find a "good price" for the 10.5 upgrade disk. Found it here at Amazon.com - through retailer Office Supplies Outlet. Others are correct: the after market price of this boxed set with 10.5, iLife 09 and iWork 09 makes this a real bargain (without strings attached). I got the right item(s) at the right price and at the right time (I scheduled a day during my vacation to install the new system and other app suites).
I also purchased and installed a new 1TB internal drive on which to install Leopard and the new app suites. This is called a "Clean Install" - which must be followed by migrating all your files and applications to the new hard drive. (Optional with Mac Pros: you can either keep the old system and files on another of the four drives or just erase that drive and use it for storage, etc.) I chose to keep the "original drive" and Tiger running so as to have a way back if something went wrong. This also gives one the ability to boot to the old system easily if needed.
Installation: Went well - though it took a long time (roughly an hour). But - warning - I made the mistake of accepting the option presented by the 10.5 installer to create a new user account part way through the installation. What this did was to create "complications" with permissions (access to files, folders and applications). Even with the help of Apple Support, it took three days for me to decide to erase the new drive and start over. I recommend against creating new user accounts during installation: just do this step (if desired) after installation is completed and after considering the complexity that may result. The one issue I couldn't resolve was getting my iTunes Library migrated to the new drive, but there were other "inconveniences" created as well.
2nd Install: Went well and was a complete success. I got my iTunes Library (easily) migrated by simply using the iTunes
"Create a New Library" process from iTunes menu. But had I not "kept" the original drive running with 10.4, I wouldn't have had an "old" library from which to create a new one! The Library "restore" disks I had made wouldn't work with the new iTunes on the new hard drive. See - it gets complicated.
The Leopard Experience: certainly, I'm glad I gave myself a month or so to learn and get used to the "Leopard Way" of doing things. It changed the way my (Logitech Laser) mouse works, for one thing - even though I updated the driver and
control software. The new version of Mail.app works a little differently, it took time to find the way to change some settings and it doesn't recognize the security certification of my ISP (which is a good, national brand ISP). One of my digital editing applications will not run on Leopard. I am looking for a suitable (more up to date) replacement right now. But Photoshop and the other major "legacy applications" all run quite well on Leopard.
Overall, I "like" Leopard and am glad I finally made the jump. Since the user interface is supposed to remain largely unchanged in Snow Leopard, I think working with Leopard will be (as originally guessed) good training.
iLife 09 and iWork 09: For me, iLife has always been a mixed bag: I'm mainly interested in working with iMovie 09 but have no use for Garage Band and just a little use for iPhoto (since I use Adobe Photoshop and Bridge for photo work in place of iPhoto most of the time). QuickTime: yes, that's an app I use all the time and the transfer of my QT "Pro key" was made w/o trouble.
iWork: I never tried it until now. So far I think it may finally replace the assortment of apps I use as my "office suite." (I have always avoided MS Office for Mac because it's too costly.)
I recommend installing Leopard - especially if you already have a Mac with Intel processor(s) and especially if you want to prepare now for the September release of Snow Leopard. iLife and iWork are good "basic" applications suites suitable for a wide range of uses. Just be sure to think through what you want and need from such upgrades. The Mac Box Set is available at a bargain price so that part is a no-brainer.
PS: For those who are savvy about maintaining Macs, the repair utility, DiskWarrior®, is well known as "essential." I found in this case that DW had to be updated before it could be used on Leopard. Running DiskWarrior after such a system upgrade is, in my experience, an important step to ensure trouble free operations.
Alsoft DiskWarrior 4.0: Mac Universal Binary WDD105
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