Introduction

You made the right choice twice: Mac OS X Snow Leopard and this book.

Take a deep breath and get ready to have a rollicking good time. That's right. This is a computer book, but it's going to be fun. What a concept! Whether you're brand spanking new to the Mac or a grizzled old Mac vet, I guarantee that reading this book to discover the ins and outs of Mac OS X Snow Leopard will make everything easier. Wiley, Inc. (the publisher of this book) couldn't say as much on the cover if it weren't true!

About This Book

This book's roots lie with my international bestseller Macintosh System 7.5 For Dummies, an award-winning book so good that now-deceased Mac cloner Power Computing gave away a copy with every Mac clone it sold. Mac OS X Snow Leopard For Dummies is the latest revision and has been, once again, completely updated to include all the Mac OS X goodness found in Snow Leopard. In other words, this edition combines all the old, familiar features of previous editions — but is once again updated to reflect the latest and greatest offering from Apple as well as feedback from readers.

Why write a For Dummies book about Snow Leopard? Well, Snow Leopard is a big, somewhat complicated, personal-computer operating system. So I made Mac OS X Snow Leopard For Dummies a not-so-big, not-very-complicated book that shows you what Snow Leopard is all about without boring you to tears, confusing you, or poking you with sharp objects.

In fact, I think you'll be so darned comfortable that ...

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