Mac OS X comes with lots of useful software, with more beingadded in every update.
Applications:
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Automator - create automations for multitasking
Calculator - graphing calculator to cheat on homework
Calendar - syncs with Google Calendar and iCloud
Chess - play with people around the world
Contacts - syncs with Google and iCloud
Dashboard - useful widgets including weather and stocks
Dictionary - a dictionary that looks up words
DVD Player - a DVD player that plays DVD's
Font Book - manage fonts
Game Center - leaderboards and acheivements to prove why yourfriends are better than you
Image Capture - move photos from camera (as if you couldn't dothat yourself)
iTunes - play music and videos (and unlike the Windows version,it's easy to use and fast)
Launchpad - view all of your apps in an iOS-like fashion (Appleis totally going to sue Apple over this)
Mac App Store - buy new apps (hopefully you will have the moneyafter paying a couple thousand bucks for a computer)
Mail - view your email (ooh, fancy!)
Messages - chat with other iOS devices and Macs for free
Mission Control - view your desktops and apps in an organizedfashion
Notes - take notes that sync with your iOS devices
Photo Booth - take pictures
Preview - view PDF's
QuickTime X - play videos
Reminders - set reminders that alert you to do things at certaintimes, works nicely with Notification Center
Safari - a built in internet browser that is very useful fordownloading Chrome
Stickies - notes that you can put on your desktop
System Preferences - system customization
TextEdit - good for writing quick notes, with handy tools likespell check and graphics
Time Machine - restore your system back to a different time toget rid of that virus you installed (turns out you weren't the1,000,000th viewer after all!)
Utilities
Activity Monitor - view all the processes running on yourcomputer and figure out why it is running so darn slow!
AirPort Utility - set up your wireless network
AppleScript Editor - create shortcuts, automators, applicationsand more with an intuitive scripting language
Audio MIDI Setup - set up your MIDI device and record thatawesome song you wrote earlier!
Bluetooth File Exchange - send files over Bluetooth, like thatembarrassing photo of your son
ColorSync Utility - color management system
Console - track system messages
DigitalColor Meter - find out what color everything is on yourscreen, down to every pixel
Disk Utility - view and manage all the disks connected to yourcomputer
Grab - take a snapshot of your screen
Grapher - do complicated graphs that you learned in college butcompletely forgot since then
Keychain Access - store all of your passwords in one safe place,and use one login password to access them all (hopefully you don'tforget that password).
Migration Assistant - transfer your data from one computer toanother
Network Utility - network information
RAID Utility - manage your RAID volumes
System Information - view system details, like hard drive sizeand RAM.
Terminal - write commands and access all of the hidden Macfeatures
VoiceOver Utility - have your computer read aloud the text onthe screen
Below are links to detailed descriptions of all theseapps.
iMacs come with iLife pre-installed on a mac. So is QuicktimePlayer PRO, iTunes, Safari, and lots more.
iMacs come with iLife pre-installed on a mac. So is QuicktimePlayer PRO, iTunes, Safari, and lots more.