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Robin Williams Mac OS X Book, The, Panther Edition (Robin Williams)
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by Robin Williams
Sales Rank: 663911
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List Price: $29.99
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Paperback: 736 pages
Publisher: Peachpit Press; Panther Ed edition April 2, 2004
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0321232968
ISBN-13: 978-0321232960
Product Dimensions:
9.8 x 8.4 x 1.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
Product Review
The latest Mac OS user guide from respected Mac expert Robin Williams (and co-author John Tollett, this time) is what readers have come to expect: Comprehensive, carefully illustrated, and patient in its explanations of what most novice and intermediate-level users want to do with their computers at home or in a small office. Trust The Robin Williams Mac OS X Book: Panther Edition to show you how to get switched on, hooked up, and happily generating nicely formatted documents full of useful prose, pictures, and calculations. The book will show you how to share your computer among several people, offer an Internet connection or printer to other machines, and add new software to your configuration.
Williams and Tollett explain everything in highly-illustrated detail, a format that's appropriate for the eminently graphical Mac OS environment. A series of screen shots accompanies a typical procedure, and black ovals superimposed on the screen shots indicate the particular interface element (button, list box, or whatever) that the text refers to. It's a good approach, and the instructions are easy to follow.
This is clearly not a guide for power users. Coverage of Darwin, the user-accessible Unix-like core of Mac OS X, is woeful--there's hardly any coverage at all. A few network-related utility commands are mentioned, but that's about it. The coverage is hardly adequate, considering that Darwin appears to be doing more to bring in new Mac users than any other aspect of the operating system. --David Wall
Topics covered: The complete capabilities of Mac OS X Panther, with the significant exception of the Darwin command-line environment. This is a beginner's guide, with sections on basic file management and mouse usage in addition to more advanced subjects like network setup and printer sharing.
Book Description
No matter how many bells and whistles a new operating system offers--and with Mac OS X 10.3 Panther the list is a long one--using that new OS can be an intimidating process. Unless, of course, you have Robin Williams in your corner: In this volume she once again works her magic by providing a gentle and friendly introduction to Mac OS X Panther. In these pages, Robin covers not just the basics of using a Mac under Mac OS X--printing, sending e-mail, exchanging files, surfing the Internet--but all of the important new and improved features as well: working with Panther's all-new Finder, using Expose to work with windows, getting started with iChat AV, expanded coverage of networking, improved Web access with the Safari browser, working with Mail, and lots more.
Customer Reviews & Comments
I have now read seven Mac OS X books (and reviewed several), and I struggled with how to rate this book. Here's why: 5 stars : if you have never, ever used a computer before. This book will teach you about a "mouse", how to click and double-click "the button" of "the mouse", and even how to do what is called "drag-and-drop". Whole chapters are spent on concepts such as this. So if you've never used a computer before, this will be a great book for you to finally learn. 3 stars : for overall information. Nothing of importance is provided that 15 minutes of clicking around wouldn't. Seriously. I'd estimate over half of page space is used for pictures and descriptions for pictures. If you've already used your Mac for 15 minutes, you know 95% of what this book will describe. And even if you haven't, the Apple site (www.apple.com) provides as much if not more info than this book. 0 stars : for how much use I got out of it. I used a Mac earlier in my career (until 1997, System 7.5), and I'd consider myself a "power user" on Windows. This book literally offered me nothing, not even enough value for a single star. And thus, the struggle of rating the book. For another type of user, the rating would have been different. But I decided to rate the book as it applied to me personally while providing insights for other potential users. If you're a user like me, I highly recommend <a href="http://www.amazon.comhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=dominantsystems&path=tg/detail/-/0596006152"
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Robin Williams Mac OS X Book, The, Panther Edition (Robin Williams)
List Price: $29.99
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Price: $1.17
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