Original Airdate: October 6, 2007

Everyone knows that when it comes to Music and Graphics you can’t beat a Mac, and one of the most popular computers with students everywhere is Apple’s MacBook. The MacBook handles everything that students have come to expect from Apple – style, grace and a very small footprint. Steve looks at the main features and benefits of this popular notebook. When it comes to working on essays or assignments the MacBook can run a wide range of today’s popular applications such as Microsoft Office, or Apples own Pages and Numbers. It even does Windows!

But when the school work is over, the MacBook really shines.  It comes bundled with Apple’s amazing iLife suite of digital lifestyle applications enriching student life with photos, music, and video, or lets them  cruise the internet using Apple’s popular Safari browser.

Caroline Drury drops in and hooks her X-box 360 up to her Mac using Nullrivers Connect 360 software. The connect 360 lets you use the X-box as a wireless hub to view photos, music and videos on your television that are stored on your Mac

Apple’s got the tools to organize, edit, store & share your photos, whether you’re a seasoned pro or happy amateur. Steve looks at a coffee table book he designed himself with original photos, then custom ordered from Apple for an affordable one-of-a-kind memento. Steve explores iPhoto, Aperture, and audio solutions from Logitech.

Apple iLife

Microsoft Office may supply all the tools you need from 9 to 5, but when it’s time for fun and you’re ready to create something spectacular, you won’t find a set of creative resources that’s better or easier to use than iLife. This week we are going to walk on the mac side of creative computing. We are going to start with the amazing new music creation application, GarageBand (which we covered in depth last season) and then move through iPhoto, iMovie and finally iDVD, giving you a really good sense of a project from beginning to end in iLife, it is going to be a blast, don't miss it!