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There is no fluff in this book and very few pictures or illustrations. This book helps you answer the question of "How do I" and "What does this function do." Short, sweet and to the point. This is not a how-to guide or a step-by-step book; it is what we call in the biz "quick and dirty," give me what I need to know as quickly as possible.
Primarly, Toperoek takes you through key functions of the UI such as the Finder, Dock, System Preferences, and the Leopard apps that had signficant changes. It's includes the 20% of the Leopard functions you'll use 80% of the time If you ever wanted to know the keyboard shortcut to any command in Leopard, it's in this book. He briefly describes each function in Leopard and all the options related to it.
The Mac OS X Leopard Pocket Guide is designed to be a quick overview of the "gotta know" features of OS X. The book assumes a strong background in Mac fundamentals. The index is almost as powerful as Apple's Spotlight function and quickly allows you to hone on the questions you need answered.A short review for a short 200 page half-sized book, but like the magna carta it is short yet very valuable.Pros: Excellent overview of key Leopard functions geared towards intermediate and advanced usersCons: No tutorials or pictures, but the technical Illuminati don't need such things.5 out of 5 dogcows
This book answers the typical questions an intermediate to advanced user needs to know when switching over to or supporting Leopard. This is not a beginners book, but an ideal book for support technicians or people who don't want to have to contact a support technician.
The language is very basic, but that's to be expected in a quick reference format. Especially helpful are the keyboard shortcut keys (I use those a lot) that accompany their instructions and tips. Overall, I'd recommend this book for those new to Macs. Doing exactly what it set out to do, the Mac OS X Leopard Pocket Guide is something you can carry along with you and read whenever you have any burning questions about working with Leopard. I find myself picking up this book first before going to the much bigger and more comprehensive Mac OS X Leopard: The Missing Manual for further reading.
Highly recommend this for the beginner and the long-term user. the best "in hand" tool for the switcher, simple yet direct to the point in assisting you in dealing with MAC BOOK.
With such a vibrant operating system and one that is very dense, I feel that this book is useful but readers will quickly hit a brick wall and be yearning for something more. While this 200 page book does as advertised, it is very light on content and no color. If all you want is a quick reference this is good to have in your back pocket, but to get more from Mac OS X, make sure to add the 'Missing Manual' book to your collection as well.**** The 'Mac OS X Leopard Pocket Guide' is a good enough resource for those looking for a quick guide to useful Mac OS X abilities and ways to do things, but honestly I feel that this book is a bit light. I think a heavy base of users would be Windows switchers who have come to the Mac and want to learn more about how to do things in this environment versus where they came from.
Lets hope that's better. I'm trying a David Pogue book next, based on the good Palm manuals he did a few years back. how program installation works on osx.
I bought it on the basis of O'Reilly's reputation. You can figure that out without a manual. This book is a waste of time.
It doesn't cover things not apparent in the menus e.g. Geez O'Reilly, what were you thinking. Won't do that again.
Essentially, its someone going through all the menu and telling you what they are.
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