Introduction

You made the right choice twice: OS X Yosemite (OS X 10.10) 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 fun. What a concept! Whether you’re brand spanking new to the Mac or a grizzled Mac vet, I guarantee that reading this book to discover the ins and outs of OS X Yosemite will make everything easier. The publisher couldn’t say as much on the cover if it weren’t true!

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 Yosemite For Dummies is the latest revision and has been, once again, completely updated to include all the tasty OS X goodness in Yosemite. 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 Yosemite? Well, Yosemite is a big, somewhat complicated personal-computer operating system. So I made OS X Yosemite For Dummies a not-so-big, not-too-complicated book that shows you what Yosemite 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 Yosemite Made Easy, but the publishers wouldn’t ...

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