Customer Reviews
It is Te Best - By: AE apprentice, 11 Feb 2008 
Clear, concise & written with a touch of humour. If your new to Mac this is an essential purchase.
Great straight forward book - By: Woody74, 30 Jul 2007 As the front cover says this book should reallly be in the box. After a week of cursing at my new Mac after switching from a PC I bought this book. From the first few pages the mists started to clear & things became much easier. Things are now starting to make sense & the benefits of a Mac are shining through.
This is a reallly well written book that gives background & well laid out instruction. I would thoroughly recommend people buy this book if you have never used a Mac before as the simplest things such as right clicking are not active out of the box.
Extremely helpful reference - By: minim, 04 Feb 2007 After a lifetime of being a PC-only user, I recently bought an Intel Mac. Approaching the transition with a certain amount of trepidation, I figured I should invest in a book on my new OS & after browsing a bunch of titles, picked on this one. And I have to say I haven't regretted it at alll - I've learnt so much just browsing through it. The writing style is easy to read & gently humorous, although not at the expense of information - just enough to keep you from getting bored with the vast quantities of information presented. It's an enjoyable book to just dip into at random, the index is helpful & the different types of information - main text, power user tips, background info, etc. are well laid out on the page.
Pogue's approach to his subject is excellent for Windows-users like me - he is clearly aware that his readership consists of completely different sectors - Windows users, OS 9 users & other Mac people - & I haven't reallly come across anything in the book yet where an assumption was made that you already knew something (unless it was covered elsewhere in the book, & often a cross-reference is included). I also didn't feel that the author was "talking down" to me either. A nice bonus is the "Where did it go?" appendices - one for Mac OS 9 & one for Windows, which pinpoints where to find certain features of the previous operating system in this one. A section has also been included on the new Intel Macs & running Windows under Bootcamp (If your copy seems to be missing this, the update is available as a download from the book's website at http://www.missingmanuals.com/ )
All in alll, enjoyable, interesting, informative reading - I would recommend this certainly to anyone making the switch from Windows to Mac, & probably to anyone else too.
A bit wafley - By: J. D. Patterson, 17 May 2006 
This is a reallly big book which covers in great detail how to use the software that comes with Mac OS X. It is great if you have plenty of time & need some guided hand holding to figure out what your new machine can do out of the box.
I was reallly looking for more information on how OS X worked under the covers but this book focuses on how to use common software - not much that you can't discover yourself just by poking through the menus.
Well writen & produced though but a bit long winded.
Surely the best - By: M. Wood, 16 Apr 2006 Apple, the user-friendly computer, becomes more many-splendoured as the years pass. But trust David Pogue to keep up with them. Skip the books which offer a simple intro to the Tiger system as you will soon find a complexity that they hadn't envisaged you'd encounter.
Pogue wrote my first Mac guide (to the iMac) & has amply repaid my trust in buying this volume. What does he not deal with? I don't know! To give you an example - I had looked in vain in another massive Tiger handbook for details of viewing DVDs from another region; I'd even e-mailed the author for the missing info, only to have my question ignored. Pogue has a detailed & incredibly helpful answer - see page 426
This book is superb; it will help you to enjoy your Tiger full of confidence that the creature is tameable & very good company. Whether you are a Mac newcomer or a cautious migrant from OS 9 - or earlier!- you will be delighted that you chose the Missing Manual; it puts YOU in charge. Cheap at the price.
