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Sams Teach Yourself iMac in 10 Minutes

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I found so many errors in the first 40 pages that I stopped reading and returned the book to the store.

1) Figure 2.1 The iMac desktop, shows the arrows in the scroll bar in the wrong position. On an iMac, both up and down arrows are located in the lower right corner of the scroll bar. And the author didn't know this?

2) Page 28 (with illustration of a lightbulb and called "Tip"- Tip is defined in the beginning of the book as a way to find out shortcuts and other timesaving advice (for the iMac)," but the writer uses this so-called tip to tell you she (the author) might use a word other than "icon" to describe an icon. What has this to do with an iMac?*** 3) On page 34, the author says: "In an emergency....press the keyboard combination command+control+power. Your iMac will restart, destroying any information that you have not saved and possibly messing up your hard drive." What kind of writer would tell you to do this if it might mess up your hard drive?*** 4) The second paragraph on page 38 ends with the same sentence printed twice. Such sloppy work indicates this was written in haste and without an eye for details like these, so I'm returning the book to the store. I doubt there will be a second edition. Buy iMac for Dummies instead.