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Mac Box Set [OLD VERSION]

Mac Box Set [OLD VERSION]From: Apple Computer

Buy New: $299.99
as of 9/9/2010 06:11 CDT details



New (3) Used (5) from $194.99

Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars 44 reviews
Sales Rank: 1062

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

Release Date: January 27, 2009
Shipping: Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours

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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Product Description
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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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5 out of 5 stars Like buying a new Mac!   February 7, 2009
Stacie C. Buckland (Princeton, WV)
19 out of 19 found this review helpful

I had a 2006 iMac running Tiger OS and iLife HD. I never really had the desire to upgrade my OS until I changed jobs and the company that I work for now is using Leopard. Time Machine is such a wonderful feature, and best of all, I was able to use it with my external USB drive. No additional drives to buy. Not only that, but after seeing the new features of iLife09, especially iWeb and iMovie, I knew I wanted that software package too. I was amazed to see that you could buy all three bundled for over 40% off the cost of all three! It's just like I bought an all new iMac for a fraction of the price! Sounds like a infomercial, but it's true. Installation was simple, and I'm loving the OS and new software. Truly a great deal for us with a computer a few years old, and wanting to breath new life into it.


5 out of 5 stars Fantastic deal.   February 6, 2009
inlvnv
11 out of 11 found this review helpful

I was about to upgrade my early 2006 iMac to iLife 09 and to Leopard early January, when I saw this coming out. Waited for its release and bought it from Amazon at a cheaper price and even got iWork 09 thrown in. It was a great deal and should be the last upgrade for this tired old iMac, which should give me another 2 to 3 years of use.


5 out of 5 stars Great Apps at an even better price   February 6, 2009
Chris Robertson (Dallas, TX USA)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful

I purchased the Mac Box Set, and definetly happy with my purchase. Not only do you get the most up-to-date version of Leopard (10.5.6), but iWork 09 and iPhoto 09, cheaper than you would by buying both separately.

Both are great. Love the faces feature in iPhoto and the compatability of iWork with Office documents.



4 out of 5 stars Great package deal   March 3, 2009
ErinK (Pittsburgh, PA USA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful

Though I'm not 100% sold on Apple software, if you want to upgrade this is the way to do it. I was putting off upgrading to Leopard, and I kind of wanted the new iPhoto, but I wasn't willing to spend the money until now. This box set is a great deal.

Separately, the OS upgrade alone costs $129 from Apple, and then iLife (which includes the new iPhoto, Garage Band, iDVD, iMovie, and iWeb) is another $79. The box set also includes iWork, with Apple's word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation software. I skipped buying that when I got my Mac because I was buying MS Office and it was redundant, but sometimes it would be nice to have another option.

The only problem I'm having is that after upgrading the OS, I didn't have space to install the upgraded apps. Working on that.

Note: if you only install the OS upgrade, Safari will stop working because the new OS apparently requires the new version. So you have to upgrade Safari at the same time.



4 out of 5 stars 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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