Customer Reviews:
 Great for a newbie Mac user March 10, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is my first time owning a mac, and this book is excellent giving every detail you could possibly imagine to help in the transition from a PC to a Mac. Also, I'm a very detailed person and need good explainations and this book has gone far beyond my expectations and I'd honestly recommend this book to any friend of mine. Enjoy.
Mac OS 10.5 Leopard by Robin Williams - Peachpit Learning Series January 20, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
As a semi computer illiterate grandmother trying to keep up with the technology world, this book is super. It's written and organized in an easy to understand and friendly manner, yet with enough personality to be interesting. I've been using Macs for 20 years and now have a new laptop with Leopard. Robin's book is my bible for bridging into this new operating system. I travel full time in a motorhome, and Robin's book is conveniently at my side with the answers.
 Good Introduction to Leopard January 14, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is a good introduction to Mac OSX Leopard especially for a convert from a PC.
well written, excellent,color illustrations, January 8, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Robin Williams is one woman Mac powerhouse. She's been around a long time, and knows how to write so we quickly understand and grasp her points.
Her first book I read, when I was new to Mac's was an industry favorite called The Little Mac Book. She has a knack for talking to you, not down, and when I picked up that book, I was a newbie. I also read one of her design books, for she is diversified, from graphic arts to now Shakespeare author, and we can catch her on cruises. If you get a chance, do!
This book, was a choice for me to get some basics on Mac's latest OS - Leopard, and I knew Robin would guide me, offer tips, and have illustrations, and yes, they're in color. Peachpit Press is a great company, an old guard company, that publishes just the best, and this is one. The book is designed to take the reader from being introduced to Macs, and it's Operating System, and take you from there. Since I've been into Macs for many years now, not sure how many, I went through the beginning quickly, but often because the catchy design approach, illustrations, I would stop, read, and learn something I'd not known.
The book is laid out in it's Contents at a Glance. It uses lessons, from 1 - Introduction to the Mac OS X Desktop through 24 on page 415: Secure your Mac and it's Files. So I found I could look in general for topics in this organization, or on the next page is a more detailed approach, or a true table of contents, often going page by page, with topics, and sub topics.
For example:
Mac OS X Applications is a section starting in chapter's 3 - 14, with 3 being Introduction to Mac OS X Applications, and topics under it being,
Know your Applications Folder, Applications Integration, What I've Not Covering, and Know the Common Features of the Mac Apps. So you see that it's set up to take you directly to where you want to go quickly.
The color illustrations are excellent, and Robin gives you simple language approach to what you see. She writes, designs and does the type preferences. For example when I wanted some guidance on an Video Chatting ( page 169), she goes step by step, with photos so I could know what to expect/see on my Mac. She uses red circles around what I was directed to use my cursor to hit. The screen shots were excellent. And allowed me to quickly grasp what she was teaching me. Just like if she were sitting next to me, pointing at my computer with a laser pointer.
I highly recommend the book, for beginners to immediate. I only wish she'd added a couple of chapters for more advanced.
Helpful January 7, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: Peachpit Learning Series
Having bought one copy for myself and found it useful i have now bought a second copy for use by our Mac users in our retirement village.
Tommy Thomas
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