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By: David PogueeBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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Significantly updated from its previous edition, this book examines key Mac features, including Mac basics, working with files, setting up a printer, getting on the Internet, using Apple Mail, getting started with iLife, connecting other devices to your Mac, troubleshooting, upgrading, and much more Apple’s hot selling Mac OS X operating system and its aggressive "switch" marketing campaign are rapidly driving up the Macintosh installed base Covers the latest version of Mac OS X and the new and improved iMac, iBook, Power Mac, and PowerBook machines, as well as AirPort Extreme, FireWire 800, the SuperDrive, and the iLife digital media suite Written by renowned author David Pogue, one of the most successful technology writers today and the author of a popular weekly column in the New York Times
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| Release Date: 04-26-2004 | |
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Macs For Dummies, 8th Edition
Chapter One
How to Turn On Your Mac (and What to Do Next)
In This Chapter
* How to turn the Mac on (and off)
* New meanings for old words like mouse, menu, and system
* Doing windows
* Mindlessly opening and closing folders
Once you've paid for your Mac, the hard part is over. Take it home, open the carton, and haul it out of its sculptured Styrofoam blocks.
Now you should set aside, oh, a good two minutes for getting it all plugged in (see Chapter 20).
At this moment, then, you should have a ready-to-roll Mac on your desk, in all its gorgeous glory, and a look of fevered anticipation on your face.
Switching On the Mac
In this very first lesson, you'll be asked to locate the On button. It's round, it's on the front, side, or top of the computer, and it bears the universal symbol for Mac On-Turning, like this:
HANDS-ON
Try pushing this button now. If the Mac responds in some way - a sound plays, the screen lights up, missiles are launched from the Arizona desert - then your machine is working.
If pressing that button doesn't do anything, then your Mac isn't plugged into a working power outlet. I'll wait here while you get that problem sorted out.
If your On-button experiment was successful, you hear a chord, and after a few seconds, an image appears on the screen. Now you're treated to the famous Apple logo, revered by millions. It looks like this:
Mac OS X
(In the rare event that your Apple logo appears like this -
- your screen is upside-down.)
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