- Paperback: 608 pages
- Publisher: Pogue Press; 1 edition (Mar 4 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0596514123
- ISBN-13: 978-0596514129
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 18.6 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 794 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
#138,811 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #76 in Books > Computers & Internet > Hardware > Macs
- #86 in Books > Computers & Internet > Operating Systems > MacOS
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Is Windows giving you pause? Ready to make the leap to the Mac instead? There has never been a better time to switch from Windows to Mac, and this incomparable guide will help you make a smooth transition. New York Times columnist and Missing Manuals creator David Pogue gets you past three challenges: transferring your stuff, assembling Mac programs so you can do what you did with Windows, and learning your way around Mac OS X.
Why is this such a good time to switch? Upgrading from one version of Windows to another used to be simple. But now there's Windows Vista, a veritable resource hog that forces you to relearn everything. Learning a Mac is not a piece of cake, but once you do, the rewards are oh-so-much better. No viruses, worms or spyware. No questionable firewalls, inefficient permissions, or other strange features. Just a beautiful machine with a thoroughly reliable system. And if you're still using Windows XP, we've got you covered, too.
If you're ready to take on Mac OS X Leopard, the latest edition of this bestselling guide tells you everything you need to know:
- Transferring your stuff -- Moving photos, MP3s, and Microsoft Office documents is the easy part. This book gets you through the tricky things: extracting your email, address book, calendar, Web bookmarks, buddy list, desktop pictures, and MP3 files.
- Re-creating your software suite -- Big-name programs (Word, Photoshop, Firefox, Dreamweaver, and so on) are available in both Mac and Windows versions, but hundreds of other programs are available only for Windows. This guide identifies the Mac equivalents and explains how to move your data to them.
- Learning Leopard -- Once you've moved into the Mac, a final task awaits: Learning your way around. Fortunately, you're in good hands with the author of Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, the #1 bestselling guide to the Macintosh.
About the Author
David Pogue, Yale '85, is the weekly personal-technology columnist for the New York Times and an Emmy award-winning tech correspondent for CBS News. His funny tech videos appear weekly on CNBC. And with 3 million books in print, he is also one of the world's bestselling how- to authors. He wrote or co-wrote seven books in the "For Dummies" series (including Macs, Magic, Opera, and Classical Music). In 1999, he launched his own series of amusing, practical, and user-friendly computer books called Missing Manuals, which now includes 100 titles.
David and his wife Jennifer Pogue, MD, live in Connecticut with their three young children. His web site is www.davidpogue.com.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Switching made easy ...,
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This review is from: Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Leopard Edition (Paperback)
Going from Windows to Mac ? This book will make your move real easy.It's well presented and contains every bit of information you will need to transfer your Windows knowledge to MAC. Not that the Mac is not easy to learn and understand, as a matter of fact, you can get going on a MAC and achieve most of what you need on intuition only. But for those hard to break habits or fancy moves you can't figure out fast enough, this book will get you on track in a jiffy !
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This review is from: Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Leopard Edition (Paperback)
Any of the Missing Manual books are very full of easy to understand information. This book helped to define the differences between the windows and mac platform. I started reading this over 2 months before I made my decisionto switch operating platforms. I didn't rate this for 5 stars because it falls short on providing a lot of visual reference with pictures and icons. Without being familiar with the apple product, more visual reference would have made it less confusing. Combined with "Mac OS X Leopard: The Missing Manual and a Portable Mac Genius book "Switching to a Mac Portable Genius, I found I could get the information I needed to move forward and not have to look online or find someone familiar with a mac platform. However it is helpful to purchase your computer locally. Then you have a local contact to talk to face to face when there are problems understanding some of the terminology that differentiates the two platforms.
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Quick Reading,
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This review is from: Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Leopard Edition (Paperback)
Switching to the Mac: The Missing ManualThis is a book that you will read in one breath. There is no complicated term to scare off the beginners. Easy to read, easy to understand. A good sidekick to the Mac OS X Leopard Bible.
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