Sunday, March 30, 2003
The Robin Williams Mac OS X Book
(If you've been into Macintosh computing for any length of time, you probably know that the author of this book is not the actor/comedian Robin Williams. Now the rest of you know, too.)
As I mentioned below, I needed to read up on the latest Macintosh operating system. Though I had purchased Mac OS X Unleashed, I was also tempted to pick up this tome. When I happened to see this book at the library, I checked it out to see what I had missed. Like I had determined at the book store, Ms. Williams' book is geared towards the neophyte. In addition to explaining how to use the operating system, she also discusses such basics as to how to use the mouse and keyboard. It definitely was not the book for which I was looking. But having said that, I also must confess that this is a great book. Ms. Williams is very informative and does it with quite an engaging style. Things are explained very clearly and simply. (Even my ten year old daughter has picked up the book and enjoyed it. But then, my ten year old is weird.) It has far more illustrations than Mac OS X Unleashed, which is quite useful. Of course, it also contains only about half as much information. She doesn't even touch on the Unix system beneath OS X. But it does tell you what you need to know about the system. Unless you really want to "get under the hood" and really master your new Mac, this book is a great resource. In fact, even if you do want a tome at the expert level, you might want to check this out first to get a primer on the basics.
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