Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Snow Leopard Edition

Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Snow Leopard Edition, is your ticket to a new computing experience. New York Times columnist 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.

Learn to use a Mac and Snow Leopard

The rewards of a Mac are oh-so-much better than for a PC. No viruses, worms or spyware. No inefficient permissions or other strange features. Just a beautiful and thoroughly reliable machine.

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, bookmarks, MP3 files and more.

Re-creating your software suite

Major programs such as Word and Photoshop, are available in both Mac and Windows versions, but hundreds of others are available only for Windows. This guide identifies Mac equivalents and explains how to move your data to them.

Features

• Everything you need to know to switch to the incredible world of Mac OS X Snow Leopard
• Includes step-by-step instructions
• Demonstrates how to set up a network to share files with Macs and PCs
• Explains how to use printers, scanners, and other peripherals you may already own

Did you notice?

This book helps you navigate moving all your files to your new Mac, including such essentials as email and calendars.

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Easily making the transition to the Mac OS X Snow Leopard operating system from your old PC.

Publication details

• Author(s): David Pogue
• Publishers: O'Reilly Media/Pogue Press
• Publication date: December 2009
• Format: Paperback, 656 pages
• ISBN: 978-0-596-80425-1

What's in the box?

• Switching to Mac: The Missing Manual, Snow Leopard Ed.

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