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Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Leopard Edition View Larger Image | David Pogue
O'Reilly Media, Paperback, Published February 2008, 590 pages, ISBN 0596514123 | List Price: $29.99
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Is Windows giving you pause? Ready to make the leap to the Mac instead? There
has never been a better time to switch from Windows to Mac, and this incomparable
guide will help you make a smooth transition. New York Times columnist
and Missing Manuals creator David Pogue gets you past three challenges: transferring
your stuff, assembling Mac programs so you can do what you did with Windows,
and learning your way around Mac OS X.
Why is this such a good time to switch? Upgrading from one version of Windows
to another used to be simple. But now there's Windows Vista, a veritable resource
hog that forces you to relearn everything. Learning a Mac is not a piece of
cake, but once you do, the rewards are oh-so-much better. No viruses, worms
or spyware. No questionable firewalls, inefficient permissions, or other strange
features. Just a beautiful machine with a thoroughly reliable system. And if
you're still using Windows XP, we've got you covered, too.
If you're ready to take on Mac OS X Leopard, the latest edition of this bestselling
guide tells you everything you need to know:
- Transferring your stuff -- Moving photos, MP3s, and Microsoft Office
documents is the easy part. This book gets you through the tricky things:
extracting your email, address book, calendar, Web bookmarks, buddy list,
desktop pictures, and MP3 files.
- Re-creating your software suite -- Big-name programs (Word, Photoshop,
Firefox, Dreamweaver, and so on) are available in both Mac and Windows versions,
but hundreds of other programs are available only for Windows. This guide
identifies the Mac equivalents and explains how to move your data to them.
- Learning Leopard -- Once you've moved into the Mac, a final task
awaits: Learning your way around. Fortunately, you're in good hands with the
author of Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, the #1 bestselling guide
to the Macintosh.
Moving from Windows to a Mac successfully and painlessly is the one thing Apple
does not deliver. Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Leopard Edition
is your ticket to a new computing experience.
About the Author
David Pogue, Yale '85, is the weekly personal-technology columnist for the
New York Times and an Emmy award-winning tech correspondent for CBS News. With
3 million books in print, he is also one of the world's bestselling how-to authors.
He wrote or co-wrote seven books in the "for Dummies" series (including
Macs, Magic, Opera, and Classical Music); in 1999, he launched his own series
of complete, funny computer books called the Missing Manual series, which now
includes 30 titles.
David and his wife Jennifer Pogue, MD, live in Connecticut with their three
young children. His web site is www.davidpogue.com.
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