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Best books about macs

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cfrenia

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I'm switching to a mac in a few weeks, and I've never owned one before. I've been doing so much surfing around on the apple website and here, etc. and there are just alot of things I don't know! I want to make the best use of my new system and wanted to get a book that best explains how to use everything. Does anyone have good suggestions? I've been looking around on amazon but I don't know which ones are for more advanced users or which ones are outdated. I'd prefer to have the most updated book on Leopard possible. Thanks for any advice!
 
About 2-3 years ago (not sure), I got an eMac after never using a Mac in my life. After a couple of weeks I was using it like I had used it all my life. If you are good with computers then I wouldn't worry about a book, but if you really need one then I am sure people here can help you :).
 
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I like David Pogue's Book called Mac OSX Leopard: The Missing Manual. It is kind of thick, and goes into great detail about the OS. It may seem intimidating, but it's actually pretty easy to read.

Edit: wow, two other folks posted the same thing while I was posting. That'll teach me to walk away during the middle of posting.
 
I have two good books. One is David Pogue's Mac OS X Leopard, referenced above. It is easy to read and goes into great detail. A good book.
The other is Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: Peachpit Learning Series by Robin Williams (no, not THAT Robin Williams). Here:
http://www.amazon.com/Mac-OS-10-5-L...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242415285&sr=8-1
It too is a good book. Well written without going as deep as Pogue's. I use it to brush up on things. When I lend one of the books out to a new Mac user, it's always the Peachpit book I give them first.
Good luck to you!
PS... Robin Williams has another book out called Cool Mac Apps that is good for learning more about the iLife Suite apps.
 
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surflordca said:
So what is the best book to buy to learn the terminal commands :confused:
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If you don't know the terminal commands then

man <command>

are the runes to use, however you need to know what the command is to be able to access the man(ual) pages!! Here's a list - http://www.scribd.com/doc/2084227/Mac-OS-X-Terminal-Commands-list

For the most part you'll use just a few of these: cd; ls; chmod; grep; and so on. OS X uses Bash as the terminal program so find a book on that, there's an O'Reilly one I use.
 
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