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Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Leopard Edition
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Additional Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Leopard Edition Information
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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. Moving from Windows to a Mac successfully and painlessly is the one thing Apple does not deliver. Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Leopard Edition is your ticket to a new computing experience.
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What Customers Say About Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Leopard Edition:
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Worth the purchase. Love the book.easy to follow and making my transition from PC to MAC much easier, no to mention faster.
Highly recommended. User friendly. An invaluable companion for non-technical PC users switching to Apple Mac. I do not know what I would have done without this great book.
It is easy to read, progresses logically from beginning to end, and with a great index continues to be a valuable reference. The Mac operating system may be more logical & stable than Windows, but starting from scratch on a Mac can be difficult. As a bonus, several items are available from the book's website, both manuals and helpful programs. Would absolutely buy this again, and plan on purchasing it for anyone else I know who is switching. This book does an excellent job of using what we already know from Windows and explaining how to do it on a Mac. I love that David really takes the time to explain the reasoning behind the Mac way of thinking; it helps with the learning curve.
In spite of my issues, this is, basically, a good, well written and fairly complete manual. First, many of the tips on getting information and files from my Windoze machine over to the Mac simply didn't work as promised. They never did. I would have given this book a much better review except for two things.
I had to reenter it manually. The "Missing CD" is still missing. I'm now getting ready to purchase an iPhone, and am considering the Missing Manual as a possibility. But I'm not believing for a second that the "Missing CD" promised therein will actually be there. A year ago, after careful consideration and a lot of research, I decided to take the plunge and after many years of Windoze (since 3.1), I decided to to try a Mac. I bought "Switching to the Mac" to ease some of the pain of the transition, which it most certainly has done. Overall, getting data from one to the other was not nearly as easy as I expected it to be from Pogue's book. I send a complaint to Missing Manuals publishers, and I got an apologetic reply promising me they'd find and direct me to the articles.
I tried to find and download two of the promised articles, and couldn't find or download them. I recommend it with these two caveats: 1. Sometimes, even when a number of alternatives are given, they work, and sometimes they don't.2. The second major flaw is the "Missing CD" referred to throughout the manual. Don't believe that getting data from a Windoze machine to a Mac is as easy as it is portrayed in the book.
There is a wealth of information in this book that is very helpful in switching over. I'd have been a lot happier with book if they had just left the CD out, without any hollow promise that there was extra material available online. Simply put, it's not. I did eventually get most of it over, but some of it, like my Outlook Express address book I never got over. They claim that the information that could have been put on a CD and included with the book, and which would have driven the price of the book up several dollars, is not included, to keep the price down, but is available online.
I highly recommend this book to anyone considering such a switch. This book has really helped me to decide that the switch from a PC to a MAC will be worth it.
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