You heard the buzz and made the switch: You're in good company! And here to prove it is Windows guru and CNET commentator David Coursey with Mac OS X for Windows Users: A Switcher's Guide. In this volume, Coursey draws on the experiences of real-world switchers to frame his own straightforward instructions on how to use Mac OS X. There's a lot involved in moving to a new operating system-files to be ported, software to learn, Internet and connectivity issues to iron out, and a new interface to unravel-but you'll find everything you need here to get up to speed quickly as well as understand the subtle and not-so-subtle differences between the Windows and Mac operating systems. Best of all, the information is presented from a Windows user's perspective: You print like that in Windows; you print like this in Mac OS X. You used to be a Windows pro; now you're a Mac pro!
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You heard the buzz and made the switch: You're in good company! And here to prove it is Windows guru and CNET commentator David Coursey with Mac OS X for Windows Users: A Switcher's Guide. In this volume, Coursey draws on the experiences of real-world switchers to frame his own straightforward instructions on how to use Mac OS X. There's a lot involved in moving to a new operating system-files to be ported, software to learn, Internet and connectivity issues to iron out, and a new interface to unravel-but you'll find everything you need here to get up to speed quickly as well as understand the subtle and not-so-subtle differences between the Windows and Mac operating systems. Best of all, the information is presented from a Windows user's perspective: You print like that in Windows; you print like this in Mac OS X. You used to be a Windows pro; now you're a Mac pro!
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Award-winning industry commentator David Coursey has been involved with PCs and the Internet for nearly two decades. He is executive editor of ZDNet AnchorDesk and has written for USA Today, InfoWorld, and other major publications.
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Don't waste your money or time.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Mac OS X for Windows Users: A Switchers' Guide (Paperback)
I am a life long PC user who also has 3 Macs. I just purchase 2 of the hottest new Macs for my video edit suite and saw this book on the shelf and grabbed it without opening it. I actually thought it would contain some useful information about the OS X and help me get up to speed easier. Foolish me for judging a book by its cover. This author should be ashamed of himself. The only thing worse than the content is the writing. I do recommend this publisher however for anyone who cannot write and doesn't have much to say because clearly they don't care either. Bottom line - I purchased the Mac! I don't need to be validated or praised as a "switcher." The book is full of Mac ads and commercials and who needs that. What I wanted was to know how the Mac and PC are the same and how to get the job done in OS X not an assemblage of why the PC is inferior. BTW: I don't write reviews but this book is so bad I felt it was a must.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Lazy and sloppy,
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This review is from: Mac OS X for Windows Users: A Switchers' Guide (Paperback)
Had this book been titled 'My Switch to Mac, a Personal Odyssey', it would merit two or three stars. But it's titled 'Mac OS-X for Windows Users', and with such a title one expects much more than this book deliversThe author is lazy and sloppy at all turns. Other reviewers have mentioned the 'filler' material such as pro-Apple testimonials from 'Switchers', and the author's habit of saying 'this should work, although I didn't try it'. But also take note of the screenshots, which often include oddball icons that the author explains away as software he happens to have installed on his machine, but isn't relevant to the current discussion. It's as if he didn't want to spend the $1000 for a clean-install machine and start from ground zero, as a new user in his target audience would, so he took screenshots from his everyday box instead. I've used Windows for many years and recently bought an iMac. This book provided little of value to me. There's a good book still 'waiting to be written' on the subject. For instance, when I first tried my iMac, I was puzzled that when I killed a window, it didn't kill the app. There's still a black triangle in the dock indicating the process is still alive and eating up RAM. In Windows, you click the X, and the app is dead. So what do I do on the iMac? Baffled, I opened a terminal window, looked at 'top', and 'kill'ed all the junk by process-ID. But I thought 'this can't be the best way', and it isn't. Among other 'better' approaches, you can hold down the mouse button on the dock icon and a menu with Quit comes up. But this is exactly the sort of useful explanation the book lacks.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Wynne Stevens MyMac.com Book Review,
By Tim E Robertson "Publisher MyMac" (Battle Creek, Mi United States) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Mac OS X for Windows Users: A Switchers' Guide (Paperback)
The Switchers' Guide is an unabashed endorsement of Mac over PC -- and rightly so, in my opinion. If you work in creative applications on a PC (as I do, I'm ashamed to say) you will feel woefully inadequate and be convinced that life has passed you by. Perhaps this is a slight exaggeration. However, David Coursey presents many compelling reasons for making the switch in this well written and entertaining book targeted to disgruntled Microsoft captives.Interspersed throughout the book are interviews with individuals, many of whom were in the recent Mac switcher ads, who describe their various reasons for migrating to Macs (including some PC horror stories). The testimonials are quite convincing and, I believe a clever way for Mr. Coursey to shield himself from the heat which Microsoft would surely direct his way otherwise. They are real world experiences and probably completely biased, but present all the good reasons to make the switch. Early chapters describe why people switch and how relatively easy it is to do. There is a brief description of the Mac GUI and corresponding hardware components such as USB and FireWire ports, modems, memory and the like. The author describes how to move files from one OS to the other and includes a rebate for Move2Mac, a program that does all the hard work. The chapter on the Mac desktop and its comparison with the Windows equivalent is particularly good. The Internet and email on the Mac are also covered extensively. Later chapters deal primarily with software applications: iApps that come with the machine and other Windows-type programs that have Mac equivalents. There's even a description on how to run Windows and/or MS Office on a Mac, although why anyone would want to is beyond me. If there's a weakness in the book, it's here. While we can run spreadsheet and word processing on the Mac, that's no real reason to switch. I'm led to believe it's with the creative applications that the Mac really shines, and there's little in Mac OS X for Windows Users: A Switchers' Guide that addresses how or why these programs work better on the Mac. In my case, I got entrenched in the PC world of DOS with AutoCAD and, later, 3D Studio, for which there was no acceptable Mac alternative at the time. These can be highly creative programs that are still the software of choice for the architects that I know. In order to be on that wagon, I had to have a PC and went through all the machinations (no pun intended) from one version to the next of both software and operating system. Along the way I added Photoshop, Illustrator, PageMaker, AfterEffects, Painter, Dreamweaver and other PC programs. Now, in order to switch, I have to buy all these programs over again in Mac mode. Nowhere in the book is there an answer or discussion on this dilemma. Nevertheless, for the price, this is a great book for those with only recent PC history or limited Adobe PC applications to evaluate what is really an easy choice. It sure convinced me and I may just spring for the Mac Photoshop software anyway. MacMice Rating: 4 out of 5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wynne Stevens
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