Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 004.165 EAN: 9780470278161 ISBN: 0470278161 Label: For Dummies Manufacturer: For Dummies Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 408 Publication Date: July 21, 2008 Publisher: For Dummies Sales Rank: 10056 Studio: For Dummies
Product DescriptionGot a new MacBook, MacBook Air, or MacBook Pro? Want the scoop on Mac laptop basics, using Mac OS X Leopard, networking a laptop, or connecting your laptop to wireless devices? There’s no better place to find what you need than MacBook For Dummies, 2nd Edition!
With your Mac laptop, you can take your movies, music, documents, e-mail, and Internet wherever the action is. MacBook For Dummies, 2nd Edition provides the lowdown on maintaining and upgrading your MacBook, customizing the Dock and desktop, traveling with a laptop, turning iPhoto into your portable darkroom, and much more. Learn to:
Locate the battery compartment, iSight camera, ports, and “on” button
Move your existing files from an older computer
Use all the cool new features of Mac OS X Leopard
Work with iTunes, iMovie, iPhoto, iDVD, and GarageBand, all packaged with your MacBook
Identify the signs of a well-functioning laptop and check for trouble
Set up your Mac for multiple users
Explore the cool options available with a .Mac account and iDisk storage that lets you retrieve your files anywhere
Manage your digital music, photos, and movies
Use Bluetooth and get all your wireless devices communicating with each other
And if you’ve been considering switching from a PC to a Mac, MacBook For Dummies, 2nd Edition guides you through the process and even shows you how to run Windows on your Mac laptop. If there’s a MacBook in your future — or present — this is the book for you!
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Good Into to Mac Laptops
This is not "EVERYTHING" you wanted to know about your laptop but it does provide some helpful information and a few surprises. If you buy it with OTHER BOOKS it can be a good part of a collection. I rate it a C+. The author is very amusing sometimes.
Rating: - MacBook Dummie No More!
Look, Apple made a GREAT personal Labtop. PERIOD! If you want to get up to speed (before the Genius Bar), there is simply no better book than Mark L. Chambers' MacBook For Dummies. Plainly written, well laid out; you'll get ALL the basic information you'll ever need to logically understand your GREAT tool!
Rating: - Two Years Makes A Lot of Difference in Computers !
Two years in the rapidly changing landscape of computers makes a lot of difference. "Macbook For Dummies" is helpful to a novice Mac owner like myself, but there is a lot of already outdated material in this manual. The book invests a lot of its pages defining the "Tiger" operating system. While there are many similarities to the new Leopard OS, I stumble through a lot of the exceptions presented that were distinctive to Tiger.
I've learned a lot of basics through this book, but I spend almost ... Read More
Rating: - Great book for beginners
This book has definitely not disappointed. I switched to the mac world from a pc world and found myself struggling just to do basic things on my new mac book pro. This book is a great resource and really gets you up to speed very quickly. If you have always had a mac and know the basics this book maybe a little too basic for you.
Rating: - Its not for dummies and is actually pretty good
MacBook for Dummies
reviewed by Dr. Eric Flescher, Olathe, KS: (dreric1kansas@aol.com)
Author: Mark L. Chamber
Publisher: Wiley
Released: 2006
Pages: 366
$ USA 22
Canada 26
UK 15
ISBN: 0-470-04859-X
Strengths: The book includes a very introduction. Good screenshots and illustrations including the pointers to specific areas within the illustrations. Five icons help pinpoint helpful information along the way. ... Read More
- Good Into to Mac Laptops
- MacBook Dummie No More!
