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What's New
NAMM 2002

NAMM News
Gearheads rejoice — winter NAMM brings tidings of audio hardware and software.

Adobe InDesign

Adobe InDesign 2.0
Now shipping, Adobe’s InDesign integrates page layout tools with Photoshop, Acrobat and Illustrator.

Civilization III

Civilization 3
Can you rule long enough — say, at least five millennia — to create a space-faring race from a band of settlers?

Stitcher 3 box

Stitch in QuickTime
Use Realviz Stitcher 3.1 to create stunning VR panoramas and share them on the Web.

Palm desktop

You Conduit
Get the skinny on using your Palm handheld with Mac OS X, as well as a conduit calendar.

iPhoto

Download iPhoto
The missing link in digital photography. Revolutionize the way you save, organize, share and enjoy your photos.

Microsoft Office

Suite Deal
Test drive the entire Microsoft Office Suite for 30 days. Free. Buy it and Mac OS X, get a rebate.


Books
The Missing Manual: Mac OS XThe Missing Manual
Who else would have thought to use playground analogies to describe multitasking? David Pogue gets away with this and other irreverent humor all in the name of helping you learn to use Mac OS X efficiently and proficiently. You’ll want this book if you’re a long-time Mac OS 9 user.

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Support & Resources
Get answers to your questions on installing, using and learning more about Mac OS X.

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Mac OS X version 10.1 Mac OS X is a super-modern operating system that combines the power and stability of UNIX with the simplicity and elegance of the Macintosh.

Featuring the stunning new user interface called Aqua. Mac OS X makes everything on the Mac even more intuitive for new users, while providing powerful, customizable tools for professionals. Aqua includes a number of innovative time-saving features—including a new Finder and the Dock—designed to help you navigate and organize your system, and give you instant access to your most frequently used applications, folders, and minimized windows. Aqua brings your desktop to life with expressive icons, vibrant color, and fluid motion.

This new interface is built on three cutting-edge graphics technologies—Quartz, OpenGL, and QuickTime—bring graphics capabilities to Mac OS X beyond anything ever seen in a desktop operating system.

New features in Mac OS X version 10.1 But good looks are only the beginning. At the foundation of Mac OS X lies an industrial-strength, UNIX-based core operating system—called Darwin—that delivers unprecedented stability and performance. Darwin provides Mac OS X with powerful, advanced features such as protected memory, preemptive multitasking, advanced memory management, and symmetric multiprocessing—making your Macintosh more responsive, faster, and more reliable than ever before.

Applications
Great applications built-in.
Built using many of the same technologies that power the Internet itself, Mac OS X gives you the power to get online faster and easier—and do more when you get there—with best-of-class Internet applications such as Mail, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.1, QuickTime Player and iTools.

Seamless device connectivity and industry-leading applications make Mac OS X the ultimate platform for your digital lifestyle. It includes powerful, easy-to-use tools for making your own movies, managing your music, and capturing photos from your digital camera. And with built-in support for burning music and data CDs, playing DVD movies, and even authoring your own DVDs, Mac OS X makes it easier than ever to share your creations with others.

Get Started Today.
Best of all, Mac OS X is simple to install and easy to learn. The Classic technology lets you run thousands of existing Mac OS 9-compatible applications, while the powerful features of Mac OS X provide a foundation for great new applications that are “Built for Mac OS X.” So whether at the office, at home, in the studio, or in the classroom, Mac OS X will make your computer run faster and more reliably, while bringing the simplicity and familiarity of today’s Macintosh to a whole new level.
Top Downloads
1. iPhoto
2. Adobe Acrobat
3. Palm Desktop
4. Myth III
5. Castle Wolfenstein

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Mac OS X in Motion
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View QuickTime movies of Mac OS X in action.

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User-Friendly Unix
“I know I’m going to get flamed for writing this, but Apple Computer’s Mac OS X 10.1 is what Linux-on-the-desktop people crave: a Unix-based OS with an interface even a novice can handle.”
— Michael J. DeMaria
Network Computing

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