Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Tiger Ed: The Missing Manual: Tiger Edition (Missing Manual) |
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David Pogue
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Pages: 864 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0596009410
Pub: Pogue Press
Pub date: 2005-07-12
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 48114
Reader Reviews:
It is Te Best (0/0 people found this helpful)
Clear, concise and written with a touch of humour. If your new to Mac this is an essential purchase.
Great straight forward book (5/5 people found this helpful)
As the front cover says this book should really be in the box. After a week of cursing at my new Mac after switching from a PC I bought this book. From the first few pages the mists started to clear and things became much easier. Things are now starting to make sense and the benefits of a Mac are shining through.
This is a really well written book that gives background and well laid out instruction. I would thoroughly recommend people buy this book if you have never used a Mac before as the simplest things such as right clicking are not active out of the box.
Extremely helpful reference (18/18 people found this helpful)
After a lifetime of being a PC-only user, I recently bought an Intel Mac. Approaching the transition with a certain amount of trepidation, I figured I should invest in a book on my new OS and after browsing a bunch of titles, picked on this one. And I have to say I haven't regretted it at all - I've learnt so much just browsing through it. The writing style is easy to read and gently humorous, although not at the expense of information - just enough to keep you from getting bored with the vast quantities of information presented. It's an enjoyable book to just dip into at random, the index is helpful and the different types of information - main text, power user tips, background info, etc. are well laid out on the page.
Pogue's approach to his subject is excellent for Windows-users like me - he is clearly aware that his readership consists of completely different sectors - Windows users, OS 9 users and other Mac people - and I haven't really come across anything in the book yet where an assumption was made that you already knew something (unless it was covered elsewhere in the book, and often a cross-reference is included). I also didn't feel that the author was "talking down" to me either. A nice bonus is the "Where did it go?" appendices - one for Mac OS 9 and one for Windows, which pinpoints where to find certain features of the previous operating system in this one. A section has also been included on the new Intel Macs and running Windows under Bootcamp (If your copy seems to be missing this, the update is available as a download from the book's website at http://www.missingmanuals.com/ )
All in all, enjoyable, interesting, informative reading - I would recommend this certainly to anyone making the switch from Windows to Mac, and probably to anyone else too.
A bit wafley (18/28 people found this helpful)
This is a really big book which covers in great detail how to use the software that comes with Mac OS X. It is great if you have plenty of time and need some guided hand holding to figure out what your new machine can do out of the box.
I was really looking for more information on how OS X worked under the covers but this book focuses on how to use common software - not much that you can't discover yourself just by poking through the menus.
Well writen and produced though but a bit long winded.
Surely the best (34/35 people found this helpful)
Apple, the user-friendly computer, becomes more many-splendoured as the years pass. But trust David Pogue to keep up with them. Skip the books which offer a simple intro to the Tiger system as you will soon find a complexity that they hadn't envisaged you'd encounter.
Pogue wrote my first Mac guide (to the iMac) and has amply repaid my trust in buying this volume. What does he not deal with? I don't know! To give you an example - I had looked in vain in another massive Tiger handbook for details of viewing DVDs from another region; I'd even e-mailed the author for the missing info, only to have my question ignored. Pogue has a detailed and incredibly helpful answer - see page 426
This book is superb; it will help you to enjoy your Tiger full of confidence that the creature is tameable and very good company. Whether you are a Mac newcomer or a cautious migrant from OS 9 - or earlier!- you will be delighted that you chose the Missing Manual; it puts YOU in charge. Cheap at the price.
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