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Summary: Best System, Best Book
Review: Here's the bottom line on this book: if I could find a better book on the new MAC OS X, I would have bought it. David Pogue has done a masterful job of making this new OS understandable and more importantly, usable. I haven't touched a MAC since grad school, having transferred to a PC. After reading this book, the transformation from PC person to OS X person was so painless, I kept waiting for a gotcha. None to be found. I might have to look into what else O'Reilley Press has to offer.
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: This is the best book to get started in OS X that I found. I have used OS X for over a year now and thought I had pretty much figured everything out, but this book still provided some really cool tricks I hadn't been aware of before. We're in the process of switching every Mac in the office over to OS X, and I got a copy of this book for every Mac user. At this price, this book provides incredible value. I would recommend it even at twice the price!
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Summary: Another GREAT Pogue tome! If you can't learn from this...
Review: Once again a master writer and teacher has delivered. On many levels I always found Pogue to be among the best. I started with his "for Dummies" and have, Mac Secrets and several more, all of which are fact filled and super informative. As I scanned the other comments 98% agree; as for the few critics, if you are so smart go write your own book, or at least seek professional help. A MUST HAVE book for any Mac user willing to learn. Thank You David Pogue.
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Summary: Incorrect information!
Review: Maybe everyone else thinks all of the information is wonderful, but I don't. Pogue doesn't seem to have the same Power Mac G4 OS X (10.1.4) with two hard drives that I do! His information on setting up and using email doesn't work on my computer. His information on how to send email document attachments from the Mac to a PC is incorrect: you cannot utilize .doc--nor am I able to send anything created in an Appleworks 6 document to any PC. There are many missing topics, and I don't care what the OS 9 had! He doesn't even note that some major videocams with still camera mode will NOT connect to Image Capture! If the easy tasks don't work the way he says they do, then I have no chance of ever learning Unix! Maybe he'd like to intercede with Steve Jobs about responding to HELP! letters? There are more problems with a Mac than with PCs....
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Summary: Excellent Mac OS X Book Compared to Many Others!!
Review: Well, initially I bought "Mac OS X Unleashed" and that was a mistake. [Thisi is] for intermediate to advanced users,...I had to return it. What I wanted was EXACTLY what this book "Mac OS X: The Missing Manual" offers! This book is extremely complete and detailed. If I was going to write a book about Mac OS X, this would be how I would have written it. 2 Thumbs up to David Pogue. This book will sit beside my PowerMac G4 for all of eternity. One thing I really wanted to learn about as a new Mac OS X user was aliases, what they are, how to use them, etc. I figured it out by myself, but this book really made it clear to me. Also, it explains in lamen's terms AppleScript and all the features of Mac OS X you haven't heard of! This is the #1 Mac OS X book to buy if you're a new Mac user, or new to Mac OS X, or if you are intermediate. If you're a Power User who knows everything there is to know so far, then get "Mac OS X: Unleashed". If you're not that advanced, please consider this book! IT'S EXCELLENT!! Hope this review helped!!! I love using MAC OS X and I hope you do too; get this book - it'll show you many awesome things about Mac OS X!
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Summary: Pretty good, not great, but the best I've seen.
Review: I bought this book a week or two after I got OS X and found that most of the information contained in it I had already discovered by playing around with the OS. But then, I've never been afraid to crash a computer or completely screw up settings and one day when I learn to back up my data I'll be proud of that fact. In the mean time, if you're timid about exploring and worried about what will happen if you mess around with your system preferences, then this is the book for you. And even if you are adventurous, you'll learn a few worthwhile shortcuts and diagnostic tools. The book is well named and worth the money.
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Summary: The best manual you can get on OSX
Review: This easy to read, clear, and detailed book is, in my opinion, the best documentation you can get on OSX. It has tips and tricks for everybody from the beginner to the advanced, outlining all sorts of great information about an OS that just when you learn something about, surprises with even more functionality. As a PC convert, this book was indispensible in showing me just what OSX can do. The only caveat here is that it doesn't have a whole lot UNIX information (the real power behind OSX), but for that, go score a UNIX book (specifically a BSD Unix book). As far as documenting the capabilities of Aqua (and there's just ridiculous amounts of functionality built into Aqua) I'd say you can't go wrong with this book.
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Summary: Interesting to read...
Review: This book is very easy to read thru, has humor and I am glad I bought it.However being a newbie in the mac world{very experienced in all flavors of windows} this book has many wasted pages on ..".this is how we did this in OS9.". if that would have been ..how we did this in windows.. then I could have used that info. So this is not THE book for a PC convert but a good read.
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Summary: I wouldn't have gotten my Powerbook without it...
Review: I am a new convert to Macintosh and bought this book shortly after my first week with my new Powerbook. The book is easy to read and provides all the detailed answers you need in an easy to find format. This is a must have reference for OS X. I especially like that the book provides enough discussion of UNIX to really excite you about it's possibilites. I am on my way to discovering the world of UNIX because of this manual and have made my transition to the world of OS X with very few hitches given I was once a die-hard Win 2000 user.
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Summary: Lower your blood pressure now
Review: I consider myself a MAC expert and avoided buying this book out of pride for too long. I have never needed a MAC book before and tried for 2 unhealty weeks to fully understand OSX through the Apple "help" menu. Ha!! While it's true that much of the info in this book can be found within Apple's OSX help menu, the main advantage to using this book for help is that a user can actually FIND the help they need quickly, and furthermore, the info offered in this book is concise, accurate and IT WORKS (i love Apple, but i must say that their OSX help menu is neither helpful, nor is it actually a functioning menu of what OSX offers, how it works, or what it can do). Within the first hour of owning this book, I solved 3 major problems whose solutions had eluded me for the past day (during which i could feel my blood pressure rising out of control, the more i used the Apple "help" menu). Buy it now, live longer.
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