The perfect foundation for the digital lifestyle

The new iMac features numerous hardware and software advancements, and perhaps foremost among these is the operating system itself. Mac OS X is the perfect foundation for the digital lifestyle. The most advanced and intuitive operating system on the planet, Mac OS X combines rock-solid reliability with the elegant simplicity of Macintosh.

Its stunning new Aqua interface is highly interactive and simple to learn, and makes it easier to access applications, files, external devices and the Internet. Mac OS X simplifies connecting to today's most popular FireWire and USB digital devices. And because the drivers for many popular digital cameras, DV camcorders and printers are built into Mac OS X, the operating system recognizes these devices as soon as you plug them into your new iMac.

Mac OS X features true multitasking, essentially letting you do more than one thing at the same time. For example, you can shop online while burning a CD, or check your e-mail while editing a movie. That's a good thing because, given the unique combination of hardware and software your new iMac comes with, chances are you're going to want to do a lot more than one thing at a time.

Introducing iPhoto

iPhoto lets you import your pictures from your digital camera, organize them, edit and improve them, and share them in a number of creative ways. iPhoto even lets create your own custom coffee-table books. It's as easy as using the software to create an album, then selecting a theme and a layout you like. You can add titles and text to tell your story or describe your pictures. Then, if your Mac is connected to an inkjet printer, you can print your book pages and take them to your local copy center for binding. Or you can order a professionally bound book with just one click. iPhoto lets you turn your book into a treasured keepsake, printed on acid-free glossy paper and bound in an elegant linen cover.

If your Mac doesn't come with iPhoto preinstalled, you can download it for no charge at http://www.apple.com/iphoto. You can also see a list of the digital cameras that are compatible with iPhoto at: http://www.apple.com/iphoto/compatibility/.

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Digital music for your Mac

Designed to help you manage your entire digital music collection, iTunes 2 gives you easy-to-use tools for organizing and playing your greatest hits, creating playlists, and burning your own custom CDs with drag-and-drop ease. iTunes 2 lets you import tracks from a CD and turn your favorite songs into MP3 files, storing them on your new iMac's hard disk for hours of continuous play. iTunes 2 includes a crossfader and a sound enhancer, and lets you optimize audio playback by selecting from over 20 preset equalizer settings, or by manually customizing the 10-band equalizer to create and save your favorite configurations. iTunes 2 even treats you to the closest thing to visible sound with a Visualizer that pulses and interacts with your music. What's more, iTunes 2 lets you locate and listen to hundreds of Internet radio stations.

Make your own movies

iMovie 2, Apple's award-winning digital video editing software, turns your new iMac into a movie-making machine. iMovie 2 works with most popular makes of DV camcorders, letting you transfer high-quality video and audio from the camcorder to your new iMac through a FireWire cable. iMovie 2 lets you select the best parts and snip out the boring parts--and then add transitions, music, special effects and titles--simply by pointing and clicking. Want to share your movies on the Internet? Just sign up for an iTools account and use Apple's HomePage software to launch your own website. HomePage lets you build a sharp-looking website--with no previous experience--in no time flat.

iDVD 2 gives you the write stuff

But what about digital content like movies that you'd like to save and share in their original form to preserve their pristine quality? An uncompressed digital movie can easily top a gigabyte or more, and a movie that big belongs on a DVD disc. Good thing the new iMac model with SuperDrive also includes Apple's iDVD 2 software. The latest version of Apple's breakthrough DVD authoring application makes it easy to create and burn your own interactive DVDs--complete with full-motion menus--for playback on most consumer DVD players. iDVD 2 comes with a selection of professionally designed buttons and backgrounds, and you can also design your own menus, with up to six navigation buttons and backgrounds, using your own pictures and video clips. A single DVD disc can hold up to 90 minutes of high-quality video or thousands of still images, making this the ideal medium for distributing the movies, music and digital picture albums you create on your new iMac. Want to create a slide show complete with music soundtrack that you can distribute in DVD format? That's easy. Just drag your digital photos into iDVD 2.