Mac OS X: The Complete Reference

By Jesse Feiler

A complete guide to all the new features of Mac OS X. Written by experienced author and Mac expert Jesse Feiler, this reference will show both new and current power users how to get the most out of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0072126639
• ISBN13: 9780072126631
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
• Length: 763 Pages
• Weight: 3.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.8" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Very good reference for beginners

This book is a very complete reference for a novice in Mac OS X (as I am). It has a good historical recount about the develop of this new OS. The chapters are very readable and very understable. It has a good layout and the terms and concepts are clearly explained.

Highly recommended.

Helpful and thorough, contains everything you need to know. I like having one source for the Mac OS X info I need.

Nice book for a new Mac User

As a new Mac User, this book is an excellent resource! I searched high and low to find something that was comprehensive enough to appeal to the more technical aspects of the OS and this book did delve into them to a fairly good extent (some mention of architecture and comparative architecture). For the most part, I would have given the book a 4/5, but ... there's a programming section! This is very nice to add to a book and it brought back all sorts of warm and fuzzy feelings of the old days when all manuals and texts dealt with programming to some extent. Nice book and a good choice for those needing a Mac reference. The book spends some time on the interface and interaction with the interface -- so you may wish to skim "some" of the material if you are already comfortable with GUI operations. However, sometimes reading these sections will give you insight into something you forgot or a detail you never quite knew.

Good book

I found out what I wanted to know. That's not such a big deal--except it doesn't seem to happen very often!

Very good book about everything you could ever ask!

This book introduces you to OS X, with a complete walkthrough of nearly every feature OS X has to present. It will be valuable to Wintel users too, because the introduction to Macs is done very professional. It treats every user the same, and it does just what it's supposed to do, namely as a complete reference, in which I think it does very well. The book is also based on version 10.0.2 as of this writing, which makes all those other books written for the beta version old and outdated. You won't find better books about OS X !!!