From the Back Cover
The Ultimate Troubleshooting Guide for Maximizing Your Mac’s Performance
Identify, fix, and prevent Mac problems with this comprehensive and easy-to-use reference. Covering the latest Mac models - including G4s and iBooks - this complete guide will show you how to take control of your Mac when crisis hits. Highly organized and featuring a quick "Symptoms-at-a-Glance" section, you’ll find troubleshooting solutions for a slew of familiar and not-so-familiar problems, including memory issues, power supply malfunctions, and virus symptoms. This essential guide addresses Internet protocols and wireless technology, attaching all types of peripheral devices, and gives practical advice for creating a trouble-free networking environment. Also included are detailed procedures for regular Mac maintenance, so you can keep any future problems to a minimum. Up-to-date, thorough, and practical--this is the ultimate troubleshooting guide for every Mac user.
Learn to:
- Enhance system performance
- Understand each Mac hardware and software component
- Connect and troubleshoot all types of peripherals including scanners, printers, CD-ROM and DVD drives -- and more
- Maintain your Mac regularly
- Recover from system disasters quickly and effectively
- Know what’s wrong immediately by using the "Symptoms-at-a-Glance" section
- Minimize freezing, force quits, and system crashes
- Work with other platforms
- Plus, get a peek at Mac OS X
About the Author
Ryan J. Faas (Guilderland Center, NY) is a featured Mac guide at About.com and the co-founder of a small consulting company, which helps users choose the ideal system for their needs, and set up Mac, Web, FTP, and BBS servers.
