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Don Rittner is known throughout the Mac online community for founding one of the oldest Macintosh User Groups in the US, and as the author of such books as
The iMac Book. In his latest book,
iMac, iBook, & G3 Troubleshooting Pocket Reference, he aims to pull together all the information one could ever need to find solutions to the faults and problems faced by owners of the latest Apple Macintosh models.
Although this book covers a range of topics, from preventative maintenance and backing up your files to upgrading your Mac's processor, one of its most impressive features is the wealth of photographs which accompany the chapter on upgrading such things as memory and hard drives. With the advent of the iMac and iBook, these pictures are invaluable when it comes to working out just how to get into these compact, complex machines, and where to fit your upgrade once you're in. Other areas of this book, however, are less well conceived.
The troubleshooting chapter is based on a great concept: sets of "symptoms" are described which your Mac may exhibit, and the possible causes are outlined. Many of the suggested problems are either so extreme that the average user could not fix them, or so unlikely that they wouldn't happen unless you had been sabotaging your own computer. For that reason, this section is perhaps of most use to anyone who manages multiple G3 Macs in a computer lab or other publicly accessible site. The quality of this book is undermined by the poor editing and grammar of many sections. When it comes to Mac guides, the benchmark is set by David Pogue's Missing Manual and Macs for Dummies series, and the quality humour of Pogue's books is in stark contrast to this book, which is firmly of the "computer books are not meant to be read for pleasure" school.--Daniel Jardine
Product Description
This pocket reference helps readers to the quickest way to troubleshoot the problem at hand in the following ways: it gives a list of symptoms which refer readers to their section and contains a step-by-step guide to make the needed information more accessible.
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