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Featured Products
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Final Cut Studio

Review
"The World of Final Cut. Population one million. And growing." With 6 post-production applications, including Soundtrack Pro 2, Motion 3, and Final Cut Pro 6, hundreds of audio and video real-time effects, and an amazing range of editing tools, Final Cut Studio is the ultimate Final Cut experience. Like Final Cut Server, I recommend this product for companies, rather than individuals.



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Recent Reviews
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Featured: Inspiration 8

Review from Apple.com:
With Inspiration 8, students gain and retain a better understanding of concepts and demonstrate knowledge, improving their performance across the curriculum. That's because it offers integrated Diagram and Outline views that let students create graphic organizers and expand topics into writing. This powerful combination encourages learning in multiple modes.


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Software Store

➥Arcade Room
➥Knowledge Bank

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Featured Learning Tool: Inspiration 8

Review from Apple.com:
With Inspiration 8, students gain and retain a better understanding of concepts and demonstrate knowledge, improving their performance across the curriculum.


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Featured Game: Age of Empires III

Review from Apple.com:
Experience the Age of Discovery through amazing 3D graphics. Crush your enemies with devastating cannons and rifled infantry. Navigate your naval fleet to claim strategic waterways. Build cities with towering cathedrals and forge a thriving empire with a booming economy. It's all at your fingertips in Age of Empires III.


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Knowledge Bank

More Apple learning tools
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Featured: Inspiration 8

Review from Apple.com:
With Inspiration 8, students gain and retain a better understanding of concepts and demonstrate knowledge, improving their performance across the curriculum. That's because it offers integrated Diagram and Outline views that let students create graphic organizers and expand topics into writing. This powerful combination encourages learning in multiple modes.

Educators can use Inspiration to customize instruction, achieve standards, assess student projects and energize learning. An expanded selection of 120-plus cross-curricular templates in language arts, social studies, science, planning and thinking makes starting assignments quick and easy.


Price: $69.95
Shipping time: 3-5 business days

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Featured: Rosetta Stone French Level 1 & 2

Review from Apple.com:

Rosetta Stone doesn’t teach, it immerses you in French. It pairs vibrant images to words and sounds spoken by native speakers. That’s the secret of Dynamic Immersion™, where Rosetta Stone helps you unlock your natural ability to learn languages. You’ll learn it, because you’ll be living it.

Plus, with advanced technology that coaches you to effective speaking, as well as adaptive software that strengthens the basics as you move forward, Rosetta Stone practically has the patent on innovation.

Best of all, it’s addictively fun. You’ll learn more because you won’t want to stop using Rosetta Stone to experience that next moment of accomplishment.

Select from one of three learning packages: Level 1; Level 1 & 2; or Level 1, 2 & 3.

Price: Starts at $259.95
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Apple Cinema HD Display (30")	$1,799.00	Within 24hrs	4.5/5
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Featured: Speck TechStyle-Puck Case for iPod shuffle

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Featured: Incase Neoprene Sleeve for iPhone 3G

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More Apple Games
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Featured Game: Age of Empires III
Also read: Review from mac-gamer.com

Review from Apple.com:
Experience the Age of Discovery through amazing 3D graphics. Crush your enemies with devastating cannons and rifled infantry. Navigate your naval fleet to claim strategic waterways. Build cities with towering cathedrals and forge a thriving empire with a booming economy. It's all at your fingertips in Age of Empires III.


The revolutionary new Home City feature is unlike anything you've experienced before in a real-time strategy game. Much like a persistent character in a role-playing game, your Home City is a support system that regularly sends you supplies or military reinforcements. As you get better, your Home City becomes stronger, allowing you to unlock new types of soldiers or buildings, broaden your tech tree and customize the appearance of your city. You can even visit your Home City to watch its citizens, get an opinion on how you're doing or plot your next move.

Age of Empires III gives you an amazing amount of control over your side of the battlefield. You're in control of large and diverse armies of infantry, cavalry, artillery, Native American warriors, mercenaries and ships. You can assign different formations to your army, like Volley, Charge or Bombard, or have the game automatically choose the most appropriate formation for you.

Age of Empires III isn't just one of the best-looking real-time strategy games ever, it's one of the best-looking games of any kind ever. Tone-mapping gives scenes a photorealistic look by balancing colors in a scene. Units and buildings cast realistic shadows based on the sun's position. Water glistens like water, foams near the shore and its reflections change with the viewing angle.

Price: $54.95
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Featured Game: Civilization IV: Warlords

Review from Apple.com:
The first expansion pack for Civilization IV, Warlords pays homage to some of history's greatest military leaders. It delivers eight unique and interesting scenarios, giving you the chance to change the course of history with the help of your new powerful “warlord” unit.

Price: $29.95
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Xserve

Review
"Introducing the new Xserve. Now with 8-core processing power." The Apple Xserve is a server for everyone. Its massive 3TB storage and two superfast Quad-core Intel Xeon processors will keep your server running at speeds up to 2x faster than the previous Xserve. You can have up to 2GB of memory running at speeds up to 3.0GHz, complimented with astounding interface, and install up to 32GB of memory for faster performance. Using its remote management feature, you can power it on or off, monitor, and control the Xserve through Ethernet. Mac OS X Leopard Server is included in the package with an unlimited amount of clients, so it's great for any size company. Includes rack mounting hardware, 6' and 10" power cords, Administration tools CD, Mac OS X Server v10.5 install CD, and a mini-DVI to VGA adapter.

Price: Starts at $2,999.00
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iTunes

Review
iTunes is your #1 source for high-quality download music. Play, organize, and browse your music, which is now even more easy to access with iTunes. Using Apple's innovative Genius Playlist and Sidebar features, you can now make playing music a blast. The Genius Sidebar will automatically display music that would go great with the music in your Library. The Genius Playlist will allow you to first select a song from your Library, then Genius will compile a playlist to go with it. iTunes 8 allows you to buy all your favorite multimedia. You can buy your favority albums, songs, and even TV shows in HD. Compatible with Windows XP and Vista.

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iPod Touch

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"iPod Touch. The funnest iPod ever." The iPod Touch can now hold up to 7000 songs, 25,000 photos, 40 hours of video, or any combination. Its amazingly thin, stainless steel design easily fits in the palm of your hand. The large 3.5 inch (diagonal) widescreen 480-by-320 pixel resolution with 163 pixels per inch makes watching movies, viewing photos, and playing games come to life. With hundreds of downloadable application, thousands of games, and amazing 3D graphics, the iPod Touch is the technology to have. Choose from 8GB, 16GB, or 32GB. Comes with earphones, USB 2.0 cable, dock adapter, polishing cloth, and the QuickStart guide.

Price: Starts at $229.00
Shipping time: Within 24hrs

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iPod Shuffle

Review
"Get your groove on. In four new colors." The iPod Shuffle is the world's smallest practical music player. Using its built in clip, you can now listen to music on the go from your sleeve, running shorts, or jacket. Using six large navigation buttons and the shuffle switch, the iPod Shuffle is not only small, but easy-to-use. It operates on a 12-hour battery, so you can spend more time on the run instead of in the wall.
Choose from 1GB or 2GB and 240 songs or 500 songs, respectively. Comes in white, red, blue, green, or pink. Earphones, charging dock, and QuickStart guide included.

Price: Starts at $49.00
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iPod Classic

Review
"One size fits all. With 120GB of storage, iPod Classic is a take-everything-everywhere iPod." The sleek and shiny iPod Classic has an unprecedented amount of storage. You can now hold up to 30,000 songs, 150 hours of video, 25,000 photos, or any combination. From the Apple Store, you can download all your favorite TV shows, movies, and much much more. The iPod Classic comes with a bright, 2.5 inch LCD screen with an LED backlight. With other features such as the Genius Bar, sharing, and games, the iPod Classic is your portable sanctuary. Choose from a white or black body. Comes with USB 2.0 cable, earphones, Dock adapter, and the QuickStart guide.

Price: $249.00
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Xsan 2

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"Xsan 2. The SAN file system for Mac OS X." Xsan is a great product on Apple's part. Being specially designed businesses and small companies to be a massive storage area network (SAN). With Apple's Leopard Server integration, a simple easy-to-use and setup administration application, and a multiSAN feature to access multiple SAN drives, Apple's Xsan 2 is the ideal SAN for all. With Xsan, your business can now exchange, store, and copy terabytes of data to and from the Xsan drive. Using Apple's spotlight application, you can any file within seconds on Xsan, so there aren't any worries about losing a file.

Price: $999.00
Shipping time: Within 24hrs

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Mac OS X Leopard

Review
"Add a new Mac to your Mac. With 300+ new features, Leopard is the most impressive Mac OS X version yet." There are literally hundreds of new features in Leopard, but here are just a few of them. New features of Leopard's desktop are its semi-transparent menubar, its 3D reflective dock, and the new stacks feature. The new stacks feature allows the user to view the items in a folder, without ever having to leave the desktop—a stack of its contents simply appears above the dock. Apple's QuickLook feature is simply amazing. It allows you to view files without even opening them, whether it be word processing, photos, or even movies. As Apple puts it, "Opening files is so 2006." Time Machine allows the user to backup his files to an external hard drive—automatically. You do nothing while Time Machine handles the dirty work. How does it work? Simple. The initial backup, the first time you use the Time Machine, backs up your entire computer, not including caches and other unnecessary files for restoration. As you can imagine, this takes quite a bit of time, but wait. After the initial backup, Time Machine will make incremental backups, only copying the files that changed, all while you don't lift a finger. Mail for leopard now has over 30 professionally designed stationery for birthdays, party invitations, and much, much more. Mac OS X is an invaluable masterpiece.

Price: Varies
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Mighty Mouse

Review
"Introducing the wireless Mighty Mouse." You're thinking, "It's just a mouse." You're wrong. It's not just any mouse, it's Apple's bluetooth-capable, laser-tracking, touch-sensitive, force-sensing, customizable Mighty Mouse! The wireless Mighty Mouse is bluetooth-capable, meaning you no longer have to work at that cluttered desk, and with its new eco-friendly design, you only need 2 AA batteries. Its laser tracking engine is up to 20 times more sensitive than traditional optical technology so you aren't limited to the confinements of the mousepad. The Mighty Mouse also comes with an innovative scroll ball, which allows the user a full 360º scrolling capability. And with its new customize feature, you can program your Mighty Mouse to exactly what you want. What if someone else uses the same mouse too? Fear not, Apple designed its Mighty Mouse with you in mind, so you can have different settings for every account on your Mac. Comes wired or wireless.

Wired price: $49.00
Wireless price: $69.00
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Apple Cinema

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Final Cut Studio

Review
"The World of Final Cut. Population one million. And growing." With 6 post-production applications, including Soundtrack Pro 2, Motion 3, and Final Cut Pro 6, hundreds of audio and video real-time effects, and an amazing range of editing tools, Final Cut Studio is the ultimate Final Cut experience. Like Final Cut Server, I recommend this product for companies, rather than individuals.

Final Cut Pro 6
"One Timeline. Infinite Possibilities." With incredible real-time effects, comprehensive editing tools, and an open architecture to accommodate even the most unknown formats, Final Cut Pro 6 is the "home plate" for Final Cut Studio.

Motion 3
"Now playing in 3D." Motion 3 comes packed with tons of filters and effects to apply to its amazing 3D motion graphics rendering. It also comes with a great real-time animation designing feature.

Soundtrack Pro 2
"The Next Wave in Audio Post." Some features of Soundtrack Pro 2 are its professional editing and dialog tools, intelligent workflows, and an intuitive surround sound. A great audio editor.

Color
"Grading is in the House." You now have the ability to create dramatic color effects and cinema-quality signature looks just with this simple application. One of my favorite features is its motion tracking capabilities.

Compressor 3
"Create Once. Deliver Everywhere." Compressor 3 allows you, the composer, to make outstanding visual productions using Final Cut Pro 6, and then deliver your production to your iPhone, DVDs, and the web using all different file formats.

DVD Studio Pro 4
"Simply Powerful DVD Authoring." A few great features of DVD Studio Pro 4 are its intuitive design environment, professional authoring tools, and versatile DVD mastering.


Price: $1,299.00
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Mac Mini

Review
"A little mini. A lot of leopard. Mac Mini now shipping with leopard." With Mac mini, you can now keep your computer running up to 39% faster with Intel's Core 2 Duo processors, and still get the usual library of applications to have even more fun with your music, movies, and photos. Mac Mini automatically comes with Mac OS X, as well as iLife '09 to make sharing your digital life a snap. Other great features of Mac mini are its amazingly compact design that puts more mac in less space, the Front Row feature that has an enhanced media experience, and speeds up to 2.0GHz.


Price: Starts at $599.00
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Final Cut Server

Review
"Meet your new production assistant. Final Cut Server helps you find assets instantly, share work seamlessly, and automate routine tasks while you do creative work." Whether you need to playback that Shake project one more time, get others' collaboration, or just change its delivery format so you can watch it on your iPhone, Final Cut Server is your #1 stop for all your visual production management needs. Using its automatic asset cataloging feature, you can get an overview of all, or just specific genres of, your assets as thumbnails, reference proxies, and poster frames, and search specific clips using its rapid search, preview, and access feature search engine. Other great features of Final Cut Server are its workflow automation tools, intuitive collaboration, and a seamless multi-format delivery feature. I personally recommend this product for visual production companies, but it's All in all, Final Cut Server will boost your effeciency, guarenteed.

Price: Starts at $999.00
Shipping time: Within 24hrs

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