Customer Reviews

Maran Illustrated Mac OS X v.10.4 Tiger

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The folk at Maran do beautiful books. This one is no exception. It is intended for the beginner to get started quickly. If you're an expert on previous versions of the software, this book will not do you much good. But if you just bought your first Mac and it has Tiger on it, this is a good place to start.

As an indication of the level of this book, the book starts out with the sentence: 'Tiger controls the overall activity of your computer and ensures that all parts of your computer work together smoothly and efficiently.' As you can see, that's pretty basic.

What makes the Maran books so good is the quality of the graphics they incorporate as part of their philosophy. The pages in their books look good, they are easy to follow, the screen shots match up with their descriptions of what's going on (sometimes it seems that the description and the screen shot are several pages apart, but not with Maran).

Conclusion, Beginners level, but probably the best Beginners level book available.

I found this book to be a copy of the book Maran published for "Panther" with very little if any thing to assist a person with the new "Tiger" software. L. B. Harper.

I bought this book for full price ($24.95) at a Waldenbooks store when I was pressed for time. Not a good idea; and in this case, an expensive mistake. I do agree with the gentleman from Winnemucca, NV, who said that the book has high quality graphics and looks very good. (That's why I bought it without doing any research -- or even looking through it very carefully!)

However, virtually all of the information in the book can be found faster and more completely documented by using the Mac Help menu on your Tiger equipped Mac. And the book doesn't even tell you how to install new software or make a copy of a CD or DVD.

In summary, this book might be helpful to a person who has never used a computer--any computer--before, but it is of no value at all to anyone else. If you feel you must have it despite what I've said, definitely buy it here rather than pay full retail for it as I did. At least that way you won't waste as much money.

Excellent reference for new MAC or OSX users. Clearly illustrates all of the necessary operations to get familiar with the MAC. The pictures are clear and complete with no ambiguity.

I bought my first Mac one year ago and was completly new to the OS operating system. I didn't have time to waste and I wanted a book that would get me started RIGHT AWAY.

This was that book. Easy to understand, beautiful graphics and JUST THE BASICS. As the year went on, I bought some more in-depth books on OS (The Missing Manual, etc) and some application specific books (Final Cut, Adobe, etc) but I'll always remember this book as the one that got me started.

Great for kids, older people or just new Mac users who want to GET STARTED RIGHT AWAY. For those users, this book gets 5 stars.

Much too elementary for someone who has used previous versions of Mac OS X. I don't think I picked up one new idea.

Very informative and user friendly computer guide. Pictures are very helpful.