Upgrading Your Mac Illustrated [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Tom Negrino (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Once upon a time, it would have been nearly impossible to open the "hood" of a Mac and tinker with its innards. Fortunately, things change; now you can soup up your Mac as far as your wallet allows. With plenty of color illustrations and simple text, Negrino can help you personalize your computer easily and with nary a shock. Negrino assumes that you are working on a relatively recent Mac and that you're dealing with off-the-shelf add-ons. Seventeen chapters advise you on accelerator cards, Power Mac upgrades, RAM, monitors and video cards, storage devices, scanners, printers, modems, speakers, keyboards, and more. Don't expect to find specific help on sources for all of this hardware, however. Once you have your new stuff on hand, you'll find just clear instructions and excellent photos to guide your hand. For the mechanically inclined Macintosh user, Negrino provides a truly revealing side of your Mac, without the technicalese.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

For step-by-step instructions to installing Macintosh peripherals, the easy way to learn is to see how it's done. This full-color book does just that, as clear photographs show do-it-yourself readers exactly how to upgrade their Mac equipment for better performance. Easy directions for installing memory, hard drives, monitors, printers, modems, and more. Straightforward, non-technical approach to a technical topic. Special coverage of upgrading to Power Mac and adding multimedia hardware such as a CD-ROM drive. Covers Macintosh. -- Macmillan

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Que Pub; illustrated edition edition (September 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1565299175
• ISBN-13: 978-1565299177
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,771,784 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Hi. I've been writing about Macs, other computers, and software since dinosaurs ruled the earth. OK, it's actually been since 1987. I began writing for the late MacGuide magazine, and started writing for Macworld shortly thereafter. I was a Contributing Editor at Macworld from 1990 through 2004, when they noticed that I hadn't written anything for them in the past year (I'd been really busy writing books). We parted on good terms, and I still write for them. Over the years, I've also written for most of the other Mac magazines.

I wrote my first solo book in 1994, and wrote my first commercially successful book in 1997, JavaScript for the Web, Visual QuickStart Guide, written with my then girlfriend and now wife, Dori Smith. That book has been in print ever since, though we've revised it many times to match the growth of JavaScript and other Web technologies. As you can see on this page, I've written or co-written many more books, notably on Dreamweaver, Apple's Keynote, and the Microsoft Office programs.

In late 1999, we moved from the Los Angeles area to the Sonoma wine country. It's a better place to live in general and was a fine place to raise our son. Now that he's grown, it's just us and our very excellent cat, Pixel, who always makes an appearance in each book.