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Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Snow Leopard Edition |  | Author: David Pogue
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Category: Book
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Pages: 656
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Product Description
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.
Learning to use 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. Whether you're using Windows XP or Vista, we've got you covered.
If you're ready to take on Mac OS X Snow 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 Snow 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.
Moving from Windows to a Mac successfully and painlessly is the one thing Apple does not deliver. Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Snow Leopard Edition is your ticket to a new computing experience.
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New to Mac - Love this book December 26, 2009
AZ Desert Rat
28 out of 31 found this review helpful
After 20 years on PCs I decided to switch to a Mac and I am very happy with that decision. This book has definitely been a God-send. It is written in a way that anyone can understand. It has helped make my transition go so smoothly. The author has an easy going style laced with a great sense of humor. A lot of my friends and acquaintances have switched to Macs lately and I highly recommended this as a must-have reference.
REALLY helpful book!! March 8, 2010
Kinderhook (Houston, Texas, United States)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book is saving my life! I've used PCs ever since they were invented. Really. But I've wanted a Mac for a long time. Recently some dear (and generous) friends gave me a brand new Mac laptop. It's beautiful and fun but it does behave differently than a PC. This book has helped be figure out what to do when my in-bred response isn't the right one! No right click? No problem. Want to find properties of a file? No problem. The book weighs a ton and is huge. I'm slowly getting through it but it's saved me already on numerous occasions. I'm so glad I bought it!
Very Useful for old dogs to learn new tricks!!! March 31, 2010
Albert J. Valentino (New Jersey)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I just made the move from an XP PC to an iMac so I bought this book as a reference. It not only helps with all the questions new users will have but it also answers questions that I didn't know to ask. You may be able to figure out many of the the BIG things on your own but it is always the little things can kill you - unless you have a handy reference guide like this. It is must have book for an old dog like me that needs to learn new tricks on his own. It is a small, but valuable investment that will save you lots of time. Just get it, you won't regret it.
Useful January 17, 2010
R. King (Chicago, IL USA)
12 out of 15 found this review helpful
I am an experienced Windows user, but this is my first Mac. The book offers lots of useful information in making the transition. Well worth the price.
Excelent instrument to help the "switcher" March 3, 2010
Nelson Escorcio
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
It is a well written book and and it covers, in a very comprehensive way, the most essentials aspects of windows/OSX. I just wish the writer could, at some aspects, be more openly critical of the OSX - because, as much as I love my new iMac, it inevitably has it's shortcomings (yes, comparing it with windows). Saying it upfront and out loud would make some more frustrated switchers fell somehow better... But, in the end, you will love the book (almost) as much as your new OS.
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