About This Book
This book’s roots lie with my international best seller 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. OS X Mountain Lion For Dummies is the latest revision and has been, once again, completely updated to include all the OS X goodness in Mountain Lion. 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 Mountain Lion? Well, Mountain Lion is a big, somewhat complicated personal-computer operating system. So I made OS X Mountain Lion For Dummies a not-so-big, not-very-complicated book that shows you what Mountain Lion 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 I wanted the title to be OS X Mountain Lion Without Discomfort, but the publishers wouldn’t let me. Apparently, we For Dummies authors have to follow some rules and using For Dummies and OS X Mountain Lion in this book’s title are among them.
And speaking of dummies, remember that’s just a word. I don’t think you’re dumb — quite the opposite! My second choice for this book’s title was OS X Mountain Lion For People Smart Enough to Know They Need Help with It, but you can just imagine what Wiley thought of that. (“C’mon, ...
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