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Snow Leopard Anomaly

To give you an idea of Pogue’s easy to read style,

check out his introduction in which he explains why

Snow Leopard made so many changes in a “minor”

update:

“The Max OS X

10.6, a ection-

ately known as

Snow Leopard, is

a strange beast,

for a couple of

reasons.

The First has

to do with The

Law of Software

Upgrades, which

has been in place

since the dawn of

personal com-

puting. And that

law says, “If you

don’t add new

features every

year, nobody will

upgrade, and

you won’t make

money.

And to keep you

upgrading, the

world’s software

companies pile on more features with every

new version of their wares. Unfortunately,

this can’t continue forever. Sooner or later,

you wind up with a bloated, complex, inco-

herent mess of a program.

The shocker of Snow Leopard, though, is that

upping the feature count wasn’t the point. In

fact, Steve Jobs said, “We’re hitting Pause on

new features.”

Instead the point of Snow Leopard was

re nement of the perfectly good operating

system that Apple already had in the previous

version, Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).”

Pogue then goes on to explain the various re ne-

ments means  xing hundreds of little annoyances

like baﬄ ing error messages, etc. Re nement also

means making the OS run faster and doing major

corrections like rewriting

the Finder from scratch.

Evaluation

This book is designed for

all Snow Leopard us-

ers from the very basic

to the very advanced.

As an example, Pogue

explains clicking. How

basic is that? Mac OS X

Snow Leopard: The Miss-

ing Manual is basically

a reference guide for

everyone. Think of this

volume as a total guide

to your Mac, not just its

operating system.

With Pogue’s humor and

expertise, it’s no wonder

that this has been the #1

Mac book for eight years

straight. Make no mis-

take, this book is must

reading if you want to

know more about what

your Mac can do.

Although the price of the book is $34.99, ApplePickers mem-

bers can get up to a 35% discount by using discount code

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