1. What Makes a SuperDrive Super? 2. Microsoft Offers Us a Suite Deal 3. Atomic Learning Series: It's a Blast 4. Games Galore at Macworld 5. Did You Know That... 6. Just Ask 7. Technically Speaking 8. Quick Takes
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1. What Makes a SuperDrive Super?
Would you like to take the movies you're creating and the digital photos you're collecting and burn them onto a DVD disc that can be played in most home DVD players?
Would you like to listen to CDs? Burn your own audio CDs? Backup your data onto CDs or DVDs? Watch DVD movies?
That's what's so super about the SuperDrive. You can do it all. Using just the software that comes on our new iMac.
Expected to ship next week and in stores for you to see right now, the new iMac with SuperDrive costs just $1799. And you get iMovie, iTunes, iPhoto, and iDVD for free. As Walter Mossberg <http://ptech.wsj.com/ptech.html> noted in his review of the new iMac, that's less than a comparably equipped Dell Dimension 4400. Which doesn't include any of those digital hub applications. Or Mac OS X.
http://www.apple.com/imac/
2. Microsoft Offers Us a Suite Deal
How about a really "suite deal" to get the new year off to a good start?*
Microsoft will send you up to $150 back (via a mail-in rebate) when you purchase Microsoft Office v.X, the new version of Microsoft Office designed expressly for Mac OS X.
How can you save on this Suite Deal?
* To get $150 back, purchase the full version of Microsoft Office v.X and any Macintosh computer--including the stunning new iMac. * Get $75 back when you purchase the upgrade version of Microsoft Office v.X and any Macintosh computer. * Or get $50 back by purchasing Microsoft Office v.X and Mac OS X.
For complete details and a copy of the mail-in coupon, visit:
http://www.apple.com/promo/suitedeal/
What's that? You'd like to try Microsoft Office before you buy? Here's your chance. Take advantage of Microsoft's Office v.X Test Drive, and experience Word X, Excel X, PowerPoint X, and Entourage X for yourself--free, for 30 days:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/officex/otdreg.asp
* Microsoft's Suite Deal promo runs from January 7 to March 31, 2002.
3. Atomic Learning Series: It's a Blast
Let's face it: some of us aren't fond of software manuals. In our eagerness to get to work, we either skip reading them and miss out on product features. Or we procrastinate until we can find enough time to read them.
That's why Atomic Learning Series is such a blast. They provide web-based QuickTime tutorials of the most popular Apple software titles, allowing manually challenged individuals like ourselves to get up and running a lot faster.
In fact, some tutorials--including Mac OS X and iMovie 2--are offered free of charge. Access to their impressive library of fee-based tutorials, meanwhile, costs a modest $49 per year.
http://enews.apple.com/?aaB020124:00016B523
4. Games Galore at Macworld
Mac gamers attending Macworld were agog. Not only did they learn that a flood of great games was coming their way, they found many on display--and available for play--right on the show floor. Two of the titles, the strategy game Civilization III and the online role-playing game Lineage, even won Best of Show awards.
Fact is: the games at Macworld--from Links: Championship Edition to Survivor to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone to Spider-Man--were so impressive that everyone had a game or three they just had to try out.
And with Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, Aliens vs. Predator 2, and many more great games announced at the show for release later this year, Macworld attendees left the expo with a lot to look forward to in 2002.
Like the drum banging bunny, some misconceptions about the Mac seem to just keep going and going.
There's the one about the almost total ubiquity of the venerable Wintel box. That the Mac can't open a Word or Excel file. Or, our favorite, the lament that there just isn't any software available for the Mac.
Some of the things you hear about the Mac (as the songwriter said) just ain't necessarily so:
http://www.apple.com/myths/
6. Just Ask
Have you tried creating a Book in iPhoto yet? It couldn't be easier. Create a new album. Drag and drop photos into it. Arrange the photos in the order you'd like them to appear. Then click the Book button.
iPhoto lets you pick a Theme, identify the number of photos that will appear on a page, and edit the text. What happens, however, if you have your book all prepared and then decide that you'd really like page 3 to follow page 6?
It's for just such situations that we offer Help. Pull down the Help menu, select iPhoto Help, type "Changing the order of pages" in the dialog box that appears, and click Ask.
On a Mac, Help is there when you need it.
7. Technically Speaking
Do you create documents from scratch over and over again? Lesson plans, newsletters, quizzes, presentations, budgets, business letters?
With AppleWorks, you can save time by creating a template that can be customized for each occasion but that includes all of the text, graphics, and formatting options that stay the same from one iteration to the next.
What's more, you can tell AppleWorks that you'd like these templates to appear in the Starting Points dialog box, so they're always handy when you need them.
How can you accomplish this productivity feat? We have the step-by-step answer in our KnowledgeBase.
Charles Haddad writes in BusinessWeek, "the iMac's design features more than playfulness. Mounted on a stainless-steel arm, the screen can be rotated 180 degrees, up and down, right and left, with the touch of a finger. That means a child can easily readjust the height of the screen after Mom or Dad has been at the computer."
"I've been blown away by Apple designs before," writes Bob LeVitus in the Houston Chronicle, "but this one not only blew me away, it blew my mind. Of all the possible ways you could have a flat screen and a computer work together, this is one I never in a million years imagined."
Thank you for reading this week's issue of iMac Update. We'll send you your next issue on Thursday, February 7, 2002.
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