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Mac OS X Panther (Visual QuickStart Guide)
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by Maria Langer
Sales Rank: 714910
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List Price: $24.99
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Paperback: 664 pages
Publisher: Peachpit Press January 1, 2004
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0321213513
ISBN-13: 978-0321213518
Product Dimensions:
8.4 x 7.6 x 1.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
Customer Reviews & Comments
This is my 3rd OS X book by Marie Langer and will be my last. Marie has written several book on OS X. The only one that was decent was OS 10.1 Advanced. This book is almost the same as the other two, but this time of course, the subject is Panther. Some of the chapters are almost repeats of her other Visual QS books for X, for example, the Unix chapter. If you want to get some Unix knowledge get a Unix book. Please Marie get a clue. This book was hastily thrown together and it shows. Marie writes to the total neophyte, although, the book is marketed up to intermediate level. I would have bought the David Pogue Panther edition, but it was not out yet. I should have waited. If you are a neophyte and need some help, I suggest going to library and trying to find an OS X book if you really need one. Advanced users will not find one item of interest here and in defense is not aimed at them. I will give you one more example of this book's missteps. If you want to know about Samba, don't buy this book because Marie does not mention it. That's hard to believe she can write a book on OS X and leave that out. It is one of the nicest features in OS X and most handy for sharing files with Windows & Unix machines. After having the book for a few more weeks, I have changed the rating from a 2 start to a 1 star. I cannot believe that anyone would rate this book higher than a 3 start and that would be stretching it big-time. However, opinions are like butts and no one thinks theirs stinks. If you look closely at those that have rated the book higher it should raise some red flags. For example, the woman that is in the book gave it 5 starts. That's a hoot.
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