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Mac Box Set ? (with Snow Leopard)
$169.00
I upgraded from Tiger to Snow Leopard. Was a little concerned about the upgrade from previous reviews I had read, but the installation was flawless! For me, I would have preferred to only upgrade the OS without having to purchase the other programs that came in the Box Set as I don't use them, but it was the only way.

Core Mac Osx And Unix Programming
$97.95
This book is a bit on the pricey side, but it delivers the goods more than many other expensive book in my bookshelf. I own hundreds of programming books (as well as have written several of them). Of them all there is only a handful that I consider trully excellent. This is one of them.

This book covers every possible topic (both OS X specific and UNIX) that you could possibly think of, but the coverage is not lightweight. It is heavy duty information delivered at its best. Fine code examples, and fine discussion, well worth the price.

If Amazon had a ten star rating, this book would get it. - GET IT!

Mac Box Set [OLD VERSION]
$169.00
I had put off upgrading my aging iMac G5 to Leopard for fear that I'd upset the apple cart, and because none of the features sounded like things I couldn't live without. (Time Machine? Sounds great, but I already have a serviceable automatic backup program.)

Then I finally had to upgrade in order to run a certain application for work. I'm glad I did.

The Cover Flow option brings the excellent user experience of iTunes to the desktop, letting you "flip" through large preview icons of all sorts of files. The ability to easily page through a PDF without opening it is another nice time-saver, especially if you have several documents that have similar cover sheets and might otherwise be hard to differentiate from one another as icons.

I was worried that the newer OS would run slow on my four-year-old 2GHz Mac, but I need not have worried. If anything, it seems speedier than Tiger and even seems to have resolved a few conflicts I had with the old OS.

Best of all, this bundle gave me an excuse to upgrade iLife, which I hadn't upgraded in at least three versions. I was impressed by so many of the more recent features in iPhoto, including a feature called Faces (which does a decent job of "learning" the names of who's in each photo) and another called Places, which lets me locate photos taken with a GPS-enabled camera on a map. Easy posting to Facebook is also a nice time-saver. The animated slide show templates that it provides are fun and turn your vacation photos into virtual scrapbooks.

I don't use the other iLife apps as much as iPhoto, but even a simple tour has left me inspired. The latest version of iDVD provides several very professional-looking user interfaces, or Themes, for your DVD. And GarageBand and iMovie look like a lot of fun to try out, if only I had the time.

I haven't taken the time to install any of the iWork applications, because I frankly don't think I'll use them: I'm locked into the Microsoft Office death-vice and rely on seamless compatibility with those applications.

Nevertheless, if you plan to take advantage of even a third of the hundreds of new features in the Mac Box Set, it would seem to be a worthwhile upgrade at a good price.

Mac OS X Version 10.5.6 Leopard
$129.99
I would like to know if somebody can help me. I bought an Apple MacBook Pro MC118LL/A 15.4-Inch Laptop and it cames with Snow Leopard Operation System. I have a program that doesn't go with this OS. What I want to know is if I buy the OS Leopard, an older version, can I install in this Mac book?