Apple - iBook G4 - Software

The iBook G4 comes loaded with software so easy to use, you’ll find yourself accomplishing things you can only dream of doing on a PC — including burning your own CDs — right out of the box, with barely a glance at a manual.

The world’s most advanced operating system
Mac OS X Panther

Mac OS X v.10.3 Panther, Apple’s next-generation operating system, is at the center of it all. And with Mac OS X’s Instant On feature, your iBook wakes from sleep in less than a second. The ultimate platform for the digital lifestyle, Mac OS X works with today’s most popular FireWire and USB 2.0 peripheral devices.

Mac OS X is a delight to use, but under that engaging Macintosh interface is a rock-solid, UNIX-based, industrial-strength operating system based on battle-tested technologies that do the heavy lifting on the Internet. And it’s programmed to get every last bit of performance out of your software. The iBook G4 boots up in Mac OS X, which includes the Classic environment. The Classic environment allows you to run Mac OS 9 software, and is automatically turned on when you launch a Classic application.

Introducing iLife. Suddenly, it all connects.

Let your imagination soar: The iLife software applications let you do fun, creative things with your pictures, music and movies in ways that PC users can only dream about — and then share your joy with family and friends every which way, from email and the Internet to print and CD. And you can do all these things and more quite nicely without thumbing through a manual. It’s all part of the iLife experience.

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Digital music for your iBook
Looking for the perfect songs to underscore your movie or slideshow? iTunes gives you instant access to your music library and playlists from within the other applications in iLife, just as they are in iTunes. And you can quickly sample your music too — a play button is included so you won’t have to launch iTunes just to find that perfect track.

Built into iTunes 4, the iTunes Music Store puts 400,000 songs from major and independent labels at your fingertips, plus 5,000 audiobooks, letting you search or browse genres, new releases, exclusives and more. You can preview any song for free, and, when you find a song you want, you can buy it for just 99¢. Celebrity playlists and artist and album notes will help you discover new music, and gift certificates and allowances provide new ways to give the gift of music.

Digital video star
The latest version of the revolutionary digital video software that helped Mac users create a million movies, iMovie brings several dazzling new features to your screens, including Skywalker Sound Effects and visual effects like Lens Flare, Fairy Dust, Earthquake and the Ken Burns Pan and Zoom Effect. Plus full QuickTime support and much more.

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Picture your digital life
iLife enables you to organize, edit and share your digital photos — and even set them to music — with iPhoto. Besides letting you enhance your digital photos with a single click of your mouse, iPhoto gives you a Retouch wand tool that makes blemishes disappear like magic. Naturally, you can access your photo albums directly from iMovie, and bring in music for your slideshows from iTunes.

	Go on Safari The iBook ships with Safari, the Mac OS X default Internet browser that loads pages faster than any other browser for the Macintosh. Safari uses the advanced interface technologies underlying Mac OS X to offer you whole new ways to experience the Internet.
	Seeing is believing Add an optional iSight video camera and you can chat with people thousands of miles away in a full-screen personal video conference over any broadband connection. And if you use a wide aspect ratio screen, iChat AV uses patented anamorphic resizing techniques so that the video of the person you’re chatting with fills the entire screen without distortion. And thanks to the built-in compatibility with AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), your new iBook gives you automatic immediate access to the more than 150 million members of the AIM and .Mac communities.
	iCal features at-a-glance views of upcoming activities by day, week or month, and lets you track your appointments and events with multiple calendars. You can create separate color-coded calendars for your home and work schedules, and view all your different calendars at the same time from within a single unified window.
	iSync lets you keep your calendar and contact information synchronized up to the minute between multiple Macs and your iBook and your Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone, iPod and Palm OS device.
	Mac OS X Mail gives you email that goes beyond words. Mac OS X Mail lets you drag and drop pictures, sounds and movies into your email, and use colors, fonts and formatting commands to enhance the look of your message. Mac OS X Mail also features sophisticated built-in junk mail filtering to identify and nail junk mail messages, with simple controls that let you train it to recognize what you consider junk.

Microsoft Word and Excel compatibility provided by MacLinkPlus, a product of DataViz, Inc.

Some software may require a download.

Quicken 2004 Deluxe
Use your iBook G4 to achieve your financial goals with Quicken 2004 Deluxe, the personal finance software used by millions of people to keep track of their money — now built for Mac OS X.

Just minutes to the Internet
You can’t beat the iBook G4 for getting a first-time user onto the Internet in a hurry. The iBook’s intelligent Setup Assistant will use your existing Internet account if you have one. And if you’re a new user, the Setup Assistant will get you up and running in minutes — and help you sign up for 30 days of free Internet surfing using EarthLink, as well.

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With its built-in spreadsheet, word processing, database and presentation tools, AppleWorks provides enough core functionality to manage a small business. You can use AppleWorks to create stunning slide presentations that you can run directly from your iBook or big-screen TV, to write everything from a book to a book report, and to draw and paint digitally. Want to open Microsoft Word and Excel documents? AppleWorks includes file translators that let you do just that. In fact, you can even save documents in Word and Excel formats.(1) And if you’re in the mood for something a little more fun, you can use AppleWorks to whip out birthday cards, flyers, banners, resumes and calendars on your iBook.

World Book Encyclopedia 2003
The World Book features thousands of QuickTime movies, sound clips, digital images and over 20,000 fact-packed articles. And if you’re interested in finding out how the world got along before the iBook appeared on the scene, use the World Book’s Time Frame feature to locate information about everything from Aegean cultures and the Age of Reason to the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution.

Sound Studio
Now there’s an easy way to get into digital audio editing on your iBook. Sound Studio lets you digitize your collection of vinyl records and tapes, record live performances, and edit and apply effects to your sound files. When you’re done, you can import your edited tracks into iTunes and burn your own CDs, or use them as soundtracks for your iMovie projects.

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4
Skate your way through nine intense levels of skill, accomplishing 190 goals on your way to the top. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4 is a great way to do it without a cracked fibula.

Deimos Rising
A fast-moving arcade-style game in the spirit of Mars Rising, Deimos Rising combines gorgeous graphics, reverberating sound effects, pulsating music and nonstop action. Naturally, it runs natively on Mac OS X.

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