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hardware recommendations
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Apple iMac Desktop with
Integral 20" Flat Panel Monitor
$1,199.99
free shipping
24 hours
built-in 10/100/1000 Gigabit BASE-T Ethernet
- 2.0 GHz Intel Core Duo processor
- 1 GB RAM
- 2500 GB hard drive
- CD-RW/DVD-RW super drive
- 20-inch widescreen active-matrix LCD
- 2 FireWire ports (800 & 400)
- 3 USB 2.0 ports
- Mac OS X version 10.4
- Bluetooth & Built-in wireless
- built-in iSight camera
Mac OSX Leopard, Mail, iChat AV, Safari, Address Book,
Dashboard, Spotlight, QuickTime,
iCal, iLife '08, Quicken 2006,
Front Row, Photo Booth,
Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Test Drive and Apple Hardware Test
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Apple MacBook Pro
15" Notebook
$1,987.41
$150 & free shipping
24 hours
built-in 10/100/1000 Gigabit BASE-T Ethernet
- 2.2 GHz Intel Core Duo processor
- 2 MB GB RAM
- 120 GB hard drive
- CD-RW/DVD-RW super drive
- 1 FireWire 800 & 1 Firewire 400 ports
- 2 USB 2.0 ports
- iSight camera built-in
- Mac OS X version 10.5 Leopard
- Bluetooth & Built-in Airport Extreme
Mail, iChat AV, Safari, Sherlock, Address Book,
Dashboard, Spotlight, QuickTime, iSync,
iCal, iLife '08, Quickbooks,
Front Row, Photo Booth
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Apple Macbook
Notebook
$1,024.00
$75 & free shipping
24 hours
built-in 10/100/1000 BASE-T Ethernet
- 2.0 GHz Intel Core Duo processor
- 1 GB RAM
- 80 GB hard drive
- DVD/CD-RW drive
- built-in Bluetooth and Airport Extreme
- 13.3" active-matrix LCD display
- iSight camera built-in
- FireWire 400 port
- 2 USB 2.0 ports
- Mac OS X version 10.5 Leopard
Mail, iChat AV, Safari, Address Book, iLife '08, Time Machine, Front Row,
Dashboard, Spotlight, QuickTime, iSync, iCal
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Apple iPod Classic
$237.49
free shipping
24 hour shipping
80 GB capacity
- 2.5" diagonal LCD display
- 4.1 x 2.4 x 0.43 inches size
- photo support
- USB cable, earbud headphones
- requires Mac OSX 10.3.9 or later
- silver or black color
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Apple iPod Nano
$140.49
free shipping
24 hour shipping
4 GB capacity
- 2.0" diagonal color LCD display
- 4.1 x 2.4 x 0.41 inches size
- photo support
- USB cable, earbud headphones, dock adapter
- requires Mac OSX 10.3.4 or later
- silver
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software recommendations
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Mac OSX 10.5.4 Leopard
Apple Computer
$109.99
24 hours
New dock & finder, Quick Look, Time Machine backup, Spaces to group windows, New Mail, iChat, Front Row, Photo Booth, iCal, Boot Camp to run Windows on your Mac
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Photoshop Elements 6.0
Adobe
$82.99
24 hours
Easily adjust shadows and highlights; view
before and after edits. Supports working in raw image files.
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iLife '08
Apple Computer
$69.99
24 hours
Latest version of iPhoto with photocasting,
iDVD, iMovie, Garageband. Introduces iWeb for creating website, podcasting, and blogs.
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iWork '08
Apple Computer
$69.99
24 hours
Includes Pages 08, Keynote, and Numbers spreadsheet. Pages lays out documents
by combining text, charts, tables, graphics, and mail merge features. Keynote creates presentations using animation,
sound, and graphics.
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book recommendations
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Mac OSX Leopard Killer Tips
Scott Kelby
$23.09
within 24 hours
How to get the most out of Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). Tips explain little-known features of iLife, iTunes,
and the Mac OS X core software. The tips, carefully laid out with full-color illustrations,
make interesting reading.
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Mac OSX Hints
Rob Griffiths & David Pogue
$24.74
within 24 hours
Griffiths suggests easier and faster ways of
using the finder, the dock, and the many programs that come with Mac OS X. The 560 hints provide
alternate methods for navigating iTunes, editing pictures with iPhoto 2, networking, sending mail,
chatting online, searching the web.
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Mac OS X: The Missing Manual
Leopard Edition
David Pogue
$22.74
within 24 hours
Learn about Spotlight, Apple's answer to quick and easy finds on your computer.
Work with widgets using Dashboard.
Topics covered include desktop elements, file organization, and file sharing. Mac's
built-in programs such as iDVD,
iPhoto, basic troubleshooting, using email and the Internet. Mac OSX's Unix innards such as the command line, and
new features such as the Sidebar are explained.
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Hacking Mac OS X Tiger
Scott Knaster
$16.49
within 24 hours
Scott Knaster has been a long-time hero of the Mac programming community. His latest book teaches you
how to pop open the hood and tinker with the UNIX operating its curtains. This book will bring joy to our
more technically-adept VMUG members, although we don't recommend it for beginners.
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iLife '08
Jim Heid
$26.39
within 24 hours
Take your iPod and iTunes beyond music. Tips to improve photography with video-shooting techniques.
Lavishly illustrated with two page spreads full of tips and tutorials covering
iPhoto, iMovie HD, Grageband, and iWeb.
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Apple Training Series:
iWork'08
Richard Harrington
$26.39
within 24 hours
The latest generation of Apple's iWork productivity suite allows mac users to create,
present and publish their work with style! iWork '08 features three powerful applications for creating
everything from newsletters to business presentations. With Pages you can quickly create a wide
variety of stunning documents and with Keynote you can produce quality presentations and more.
Numbers makes spreadsheets easy and easy to integrate into the other applications. This self-paced learning tool takes readers step-by-step through
practical, real-word projects, teaching all aspects of iWork.
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HTML: Designing Effective Web Pages with HTML, CSS, and XHTML
Paul Whitehead
$16.49
24 hours
Find answers to questions and be led carefully into a
greater understanding of web design schemes. Tasks covered include setting up a web page, reducing image
resolution, creating radio buttons, adding a hit counter, creating an inline frame, and adding an embedded
sound files. The illustrations are specific and detailed. If you'd like to
increase your skills with web design, try this book.
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iPod Book: Doing Cool Stuff with the iPod and iTunes Music Store
second edition
Scott Kelby
$13.59
24 hours
This is a "show me how to do it" book.
It shows you step-by-step how it's all done, using
a plain-English style that this technology author is known for. Each page covers just one topic,
complete with full color photos, making it easy to find just what you're looking for fast.
Plus, it shows you how to get the most from the iTunes Music Store, how to integrate your
iPod into your car, how to use photos with your iPod, and everything you need to know
about additions to the iPod family
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iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon:
How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple,
and Had Fun
Doing It
Steve Wozniak, Gina Smith
$17.13
within 24 hours
The tell-all book adds intriguing new information to the history of the origins of the personal
computer revolution. Alan Deutschman, author of The Second Coming of Steve Jobs write: "Worth waiting
forŠadds intriguing new information to the history of the origins of the personal computer revolution."
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The Digital Photography Book
Scott Kelby
$11.99
within 24 hours
Nearly 200 most closely-guarded photographic tricks of the
trade to get dramatically better-looking, sharper, more colorful, more professional-looking photos
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