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Upgrading and Troubleshooting Your Mac(R): MacOS X Edition: Mac OS X Edition (Paperback)

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Paperback: 656 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne; Mac OS X edition (1 Oct 2001)
Language English
ISBN-10: 007219359X
ISBN-13: 978-0072193596
Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 19 x 3.8 cm
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Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,350,565 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Gene Steinberg understands that the new Macintoshes--like all computers--are systems of hardware and software, and that neither may be separated from the other. Upgrading and Troubleshooting Your Mac: Mac OS X Edition is an intimate picture of modern Mac hardware (the Power Mac, PowerBook, iBook and iMac platforms) and the points at which it interacts with Mac OS 9.1 and Mac OS X. As you'd expect, readers learn how to select and install add-in hardware like SuperDrives and supplementary RAM, but the Mac makes those procedures pretty easy by design. The real value in this book comes in two areas.

First, Steinberg answers all kinds of common, but officially undealt-with, questions. Is it absolutely safe to put your laptop through an airport x-ray machine? How does a G4 behave when a SCSI card is malfunctioning at the hardware level? What happens if you try to make an officially unsupported graphics card work? Do third-party processor upgrades work? He explains most of these matters with stories taken from his experience as a long-time Mac user.

Second, the author knows a ton of tricks for working with the Mac OS itself, and is liberal with his recommendations of utilities for diagnosing, repairing and adjusting its behaviour. His thoughts on how to solve problems by reinstalling your operating system without wiping out your installed programs will save you time in all but the gravest situations. You'll find this book particularly valuable if you do upgrade and repair work on unfamiliar Macs. --David Wall

Topics covered: changing and adjusting hardware on modern Macintosh computers (PowerBooks, iBooks, iMacs, Power Mac G4s and to a lesser extent Power Mac G3s). All the key subsystems get attention: monitors, networks, SCSI chains, FireWire peripherals and hard drives. Special (and especially valuable) coverage of Windows emulators and video capture hardware appears as well.

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The magic of the Mac is back! Mac OS X is a truly revolutionary operating system that has great flexibility and functionality. Author Gene Steinberg shows readers how to tap techniques of IT professionals to make your Mac run at top efficiency.

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