1. Driving Home the Differences 2. Resurrecting Memories with the Digital Hub 3. New iMac Security Options 4. Creating Movies and Opening Doors 5. Just Ask 6. This Deal Is Picture Perfect 7. Quick Takes
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1. Driving Home the Differences
The new iMac offers the choice of three different optical drives: a CD-RW drive, a Combo drive, and a SuperDrive. What can you do with one that you can't do with another?
A CD-RW Drive can read CD-ROM discs and play audio CDs. It can also burn audio CDs (iTunes), MP3 CDs (iTunes), and data CDs (Disc Burner). In fact, the 24x CD-RW drive in the new iMac is three times faster than the drive in previous iMac systems.
With a Combo drive, you can do everything you can with a CD-RW. And you can read DVD-ROM discs and watch DVD movies.
The SuperDrive, meanwhile, lets you not only do all of the above but also burn DVDs you can play in most commercial DVD players.
http://www.apple.com/imac/digitalhub.html
2. Resurrecting Memories with the Digital Hub
It's not often you can resurrect lost memories. But that's exactly what Clint Thayer did with Mac OS X, iMovie 2, iTunes, and iDVD.
Simply by chance Thayer found two 40-year-old reels of 8mm film, footage that nobody in his family had seen for years. Hoping to remedy that situation and reunite his family with past memories, Thayer embarked on a three-year mission to restore the aging footage, edit it, add a soundtrack, and then present the completed project to his family on DVD.
"After they'd had chance to watch it, the reaction from them," he says, 'was more than I could bear.' And they were all equally astounded that it could even be done."
http://www.apple.com/enews/2002/features/thayer/
3. New iMac Security Options
Computers in classrooms.
Yes, they offer an invaluable experience to students and teachers, but they're also a target of vandals. So schools have to take precautions to secure the memory they've installed and the peripherals they've attached to classroom and lab computers: such as speakers, keyboards, and mice.
Now schools with the new flat-panel iMac have a series of new security devices from Datamation Systems <http://pc-security.com/Newproducts/g3.html> and FMJ/Pad.Lock <http://www.FMJPADLOCK.com/imac.html> offering an extra measure of protection.
4. Creating Movies and Opening Doors
Whether you speak to budding filmmakers or read the reviews of industry pundits, everyone seems to agree. iMovie makes it easy for anyone with a Mac and a big idea to make a movie. Everything about iMovie is easy, and the results are absolutely impressive.
But there's more to iMovie than simple but superior film-editing software. A lot of iMovie fans have discovered that making movies is only part of the iMovie experience. Educators have learned that iMovie teaches problem solving and critical thinking. And at universities like Atlanta's Emory University, students, advisors, and faculty have seen how an iMovieFest can bring out otherwise hidden talents, build communities, and fully engage students in their own education.
After friends suggested you might get higher-quality results importing your music into iTunes at 192 Kbps (rather than 128), you've gone exploring. Pulled down the iTunes menu. Clicked the Importing tab. And pulled down the Configuration menu.
Sure enough, you have three choices--Good, Better, and High Quality.
That's when you notice--and select--the Custom option and are suddenly presented with more choices than you can understand. What do they all mean?
Here's where to get help. Pull down the Help menu, choose iTunes Help, type "about MP3 custom import options," and click Ask.
6. This Deal Is Picture Perfect
Want to get ready for the fall semester early?
Then focus on this: Between now and June 30, buy any Macintosh computer--including the stunning new iMac--and an HP digital camera or an HP printer and save $100. Or purchase both with your new Mac and save $200.
Take the savings and pick up extra flash memory cards, a USB hub, or even a few iPhoto books <http://www.apple.com/iphoto/share.html> that preserve your memories of the new school year. And don't forget that you'll save even more with our special student pricing.
Need to study the details? You'll find them on our "Picture-perfect deal" website.
Sure Bob LeVitus, writing of the new iMac in the Houston Chronicle, tells us that "there is no doubt in my mind that this is the best (and best-looking), fastest, most capable iMac of all time." But it's the comments of his neighbor, Dave, that you'll really find interesting.
We hope you enjoyed this issue of iMac Update. Expect your next issue on Thursday, May 2.
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