Customer Reviews

Mac OS X Snow LeopardPortable Genius

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This is a great book for "newbies" or someone crossing over from "PC Land". It covers all the basics and gives a good intro to the parts and potentials of Snow Leopard. However, if you are more than a casual "Mac-maniac", it leaves a bit to be desired. For experienced Mac users who want to do more with the OS than just the standard, I would suggest David Pogue's "Mac OS X Snow Leopard: The Missing Manual".

The traditional way to learn a new OS is to play around with it and figure things out as you go, which sometimes works but is an unreliable way to get up to speed quickly. With this Genius book, the features, benefits and warnings are laid out systematically in nice, neat chapters. Terrific images complement the instructions and make comprehension easy. A good book--well worth the money.

I bought this book hoping to learn more of the nuts and bolts of OS X. I'm a recent Windows convert, and I have used computers since the 1980's, so I'm already comfy with the basics. What I was hoping for was a book that would share some good, practical info for exploiting OS features, utilizing the dock more efficiently. In short, I guess maybe I should have purchased "OS X Secrets of the Pros," if there is such a book, because this book didn't have what I was looking for personally. The book is okay for what it is. It gives good information on the basic stuff. I did learn a few things about using the dock and setting up some things in Finder. The majority of the book, however, seems to be directed toward teaching folks the basics of e-mail, Internet, and other tasks using the software that comes standard on a Mac. If you have used any computer for a while -- Mac or Windows -- you already know how to do these things.

This is an okay book for pure beginners, but if you've been around the block more than a couple times on your tricycle, you'll want something more advanced.

This book can show all the aspects about Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Is good for beginners or experts. Inside the book the autor explain every aspect about this fantastic OS. From the ground to top, this is a really good book about Snow Leopard.

So much of this information can be found on the internet.
However, if you are really, really new to Mac, you may need this.
However, if you are new to Mac and have an Apple store near you, save your money.
If you like books on computers, this isn't a bad series at all.
I was desperately sick of the Dummie books and am so glad there is another, more sophisticated option.

Some stuff is technically over my head, but I have found a lot of useful items in this book.