Mac Box Set Family Pack [OLD VERSION]

by Apple

Product 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 '09 Get everything you need to make impressive documents, spreadsheets, and presentations in minutes.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B001AMLQ6O
• Item model number: MB998Z/A
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 6, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,215 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

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. Install the Mac Box Set Family Pack on up to five Mac computers in your household.

Mac Box Set Family Pack
The Family Pack Software License Agreement allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple software on up to a maximum of five (5) Apple-labeled computers at a time as long as those computers are located in the same household and used by persons who occupy that household. By "household" we mean a person or persons who share the same housing unit such as a home, apartment, mobile home, or condominium, including students who are primary residents of that household but reside at a separate on-campus location. This license does not extend to business or commercial users.

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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Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very good deal, January 27, 2009

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Shanmugam Senthivel "Shan" (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mac Box Set Family Pack [OLD VERSION] (DVD-ROM)

If you have more than one Mac at home buy the Family pack of Mac Box Set for $199... you can install upto 5 systems.

Who gives operating system and work suite and digital work suite for $199 and also for upto 5 computers ...

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Value, March 2, 2009

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Nathan Beauchamp "ConsumerAdvocate" (Oak Park, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mac Box Set Family Pack [OLD VERSION] (DVD-ROM)

This is how things should be done: Offer a comprehensive set of tools and software to families for a price that will not cripple us. With a license for up to 5 computers for all of the included applications (Leopard, iLife and iWork) this is the perfect purchase for anyone with more than one Mac in their life. Pricing software reasonably is something Apple is known for, and this is another example of their family friendly approach. It's much appreciated, especially in an economy like this one!

LEOPARD
Leopard is easily the best of the best when it comes to an OS (Operating System). It is stable, fast, and as intuitive as any OS I've ever used, and I've used every single Windows or Apple offering to date. If you don't have Leopard, now is the time to jump in, the water is warm!

iLIFE 09
iLife is probably my least favorite part of this package, not because it is bad, but because I actually much preferred the old iMovie HD with it's greater level of control over audio files. Sadly, iMovie 09 lacks a strong set of features when it comes to adding and editing audio in your movie files. Thankfully, I found a way to have both on my MAC at the same time, so that's not an issue anymore. iPhoto is good, and does what it always has, and does it well. The newer features (face recognition, tagging locations) are ok, but face recognition doesn't really work very well and tagging locations manually (assuming you don't have a GPS enabled camera that does it automatically) is a bit of a pain, but really cool if you spend the time to do it right. Garage band is very, very good, as it always has been, but there aren't any real major changes from the 08 version to 09. iWeb I've not really spent much time using so I can't speak from personal experience, but it appears that most people (from talking to a few friends and reading reviews) are having good experiences with it. iDVD is virtually unchanged since the 08 release.

iWORK 09
iWork is a very nice upgrade from 08. Pages is the most improved with the ability to easily import and export as .doc files for Office compatibility very easily. You can also now export as a .PDF which is very, very useful. Numbers has also been upgraded, as works well across the board, but it still isn't Excel. If you don't use very complex number tables or special functions, you'll likely never miss Excel, but if you don work with tilt-tables, macros, etc., Pages will not be an Excel replacement, at least not in it's current permutation. Still, iWork isn't as comprehensive or as powerful as Office yet, so if you really need professional tools, you might consider getting Office 2008 instead. If you're using it for general tasks (word processing, writing papers, etc.,) it is more than capable and very worth the purchase.

CONCLUSIONS
Overall, this is an amazing value with a suite of tools that are remarkably good almost without exception. While some of the new features are not as useful as they might be, Leopard is still the best OS out there, iLife serves its purpose, and iWork has been improved immensely. If you've got some updating to do, now is the time to make it happen.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth the money., January 30, 2009

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Wayne S. (CA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Mac Box Set Family Pack [OLD VERSION] (DVD-ROM)

I have a MacPro desktop, my sibling has a iMac, and my other sibling has an iMac and a Macbook Pro. Two of their computers are still running Tiger, but not anymore. I already have Leopard, so I just installed iLife and iWork '09 on my system, and they installed both suites on all of their systems.

We're all up to date, I'll be purchasing a new Macbook soon, and have I'll an iWork license leftover for it.

I'm happy that my whole family of "Apples" are working at full top capacity.

This product is worth the money if you have multiple systems, and you get to install it in up to five computers. It's a deal if you're not flying solo.