Introduction

You made the right choice twice: Mac OS X 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 discovering the ins and outs of Mac OS X Leopard will be fun and easy. Wiley, Inc. (the publisher of this book) couldn't say it 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 Leopard For Dummies is the latest revision and has been, once again, completely updated to include all the cool new features found in Mac OS X Leopard. In other words, this edition combines all the old, familiar features of editions — but is once again expanded and updated to reflect the latest and greatest offering from Apple.

Why write a For Dummies book about Leopard? Well, Leopard is a big, somewhat complicated, personal‐computer operating system. So I made Mac OS X Leopard For Dummies a not‐so‐big, not‐very‐complicated book that shows you what 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 I wanted the title to be Mac OS X Leopard Without Discomfort, but the publishers wouldn't ...

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