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Table of Contents
Introduction....................................................................
What’s Really Required ...................................................................................2
About This Book...............................................................................................3
Conventions Used in This Book .....................................................................3
Stuff you type..........................................................................................3
Menu commands ....................................................................................3
Display messages ...................................................................................3
In case you’re curious about computers.............................................4
How This Book Is Organized...........................................................................4
Book I: Introducing Mac OS X ...............................................................4
Book II: Customizing and Sharing.........................................................4
Book III: The Digital Hub........................................................................4
Book IV: The Typical Internet Stuff ......................................................5
Book V: Networking in Mac OS X..........................................................5
Book VI: Expanding Your System .........................................................5
Book VII: Advanced Mac OS X ..............................................................5
Icons Used in This Book..................................................................................5
Book I: Introducing Mac OS X ........................................7
Chapter 1: Shaking Hands with Mac OS X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Convince Me: Why Mac OS X?......................................................................10
Pretty to behold....................................................................................10
Stable, stable, stable ............................................................................14
Multitasking and multithreading for normal human beings...........16
The definition of Internet-savvy .........................................................17
Lots of free goodies..............................................................................18
What Do I Really Need to Run the Big X? ....................................................19
Upgrading from Earlier Versions of Mac OS ...............................................20
Back up — PLEASE back up................................................................21
Snuff out disk errors ............................................................................21
Plug it, Road Warrior............................................................................21
Personalizing the Big X..................................................................................22
Chapter 2: Navigating and Running Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
Restarting, Sleeping, and Shutting Down....................................................25
A Window Is Much More Than a Frame ......................................................28
Opening and closing windows............................................................28
Scrolling windows ................................................................................29
Minimizing and restoring windows....................................................30
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