Product Description

Along with a major upgrade to Apple's core operating system comes a comprehensive upgrade to the best-selling Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide. Mac OS X 10.2 promises to offer exciting new features that will change how people use their Macs, such as iChat, improved Unix tools, Bluetooth-enabled contact management software, QuickTime 6, and advanced handwriting recognition. This newest revision to Maria Langer's best-selling book covers all of the new features and more in the familiar step-by-step, task-based approach that millions of readers have come to rely on when they need to quickly and easily master complex, new technologies. Whether you're a newbie or a Mac veteran, getting used to a new operating system can be a frustrating, and at times, frightening experience. Mac OS X 10.2: Visual QuickStart Guide takes the fear out of upgrading for all levels of users. Beginning Mac users can use this book to get up and running on their new system, while seasoned Mac veterans can quickly reference the new features in this new OS release.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1606087 in Books
• Published on: 2002-09-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

From the Back Cover

Along with a major upgrade to Apple's core operating system comes a comprehensive upgrade to the best-selling Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide. Mac OS X 10.2 promises to offer exciting new features that will change how people use their Macs, such as iChat, improved Unix tools, Bluetooth-enabled contact management software, QuickTime 6, and advanced handwriting recognition. This newest revision to Maria Langer's best-selling book covers all of the new features and more in the familiar step-by-step, task-based approach that millions of readers have come to rely on when they need to quickly and easily master complex, new technologies. Whether you're a newbie or a Mac veteran, getting used to a new operating system can be a frustrating, and at times, frightening experience. Mac OS X 10.2: Visual QuickStart Guide takes the fear out of upgrading for all levels of users. Beginning Mac users can use this book to get up and running on their new system, while seasoned Mac veterans can quickly reference the new features in this new OS release.

About the Author

Maria Langer has written dozens of computer books, including best-selling Visual QuickStart Guides on Mac OS X, Word, and Excel. A columnist for FileMaker Pro Advisor, she also writes for MacAddict and other publications.

Customer Reviews

Only for the very green
This book is, on the whole, pretty terrible.

It's redeeming features are that it is pretty well laid out and clear, with lots of screenshots to illustrate the sometimes ridiculously obvious or completely irrelevant points.

However, if you're anything but the greenest of green computer users you don't need this book. If you are a Mac OS9 user and are looking for a book to jumpstart you into the world of OSX before you take the plunge and buy it, this is not it. If you've used an Apple computer before then you'll work out everything this book can tell you within about a day of playing with the operating system.
There are no handy hints for Classic OS users as to where to find equivalent applications or control panels in the new OS. There are no gems of knowledge for speeding up tasks or solving common problems. The sections labelled as 'tips' in the book more often than not contain statements like "If you have printing problems that Mac OS can't help you identify, check the troubleshooting section of the documentation that came with your printer"... Well thanks; I never would have thought of that. Or another equally inane tip: "To undo multiple actions, choose Edit> Undo repeatedly." Are you keeping up? It's high brow stuff.
If I sat down and used all the basic operating system functions on my computer and wrote down what happened, which buttons I pressed and took a screenshot every time a dialogue box popped up. I could have written this book.

Fortunately I did not pay for the book, it was a free gift with a magazine subscription, still I felt very let down. Other Visual Quickstart guides I have seen and read in the series have been very useful and are a good broad-brush introduction to new applications, but this one is not one I would recommend, and so far has proved to be entirely useless to me.

Far too basic
I found this book clearly laid out, but far too basic for anyone but a complete novice. The book will get you up and running, but thats about it, and once you have been using OS X for a while you will need to buy a more indepth book. Whenever a subject gets technical the reader is refered to the 'Mac OS X Advanced: Visual QuickPro Guide', not exactly helpful!
If you have used a Mac before, then I would recommend spending a bit more on a more detailed book.