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New to Mac Pro

Post by blond_canadian » July 4th, 2010, 1:32 pm

Can anyone suggest a good reference book/podcast for a Newbie to Mac Pro. I made the leap after owning an iPhone. The Mac OS is sooo foreign to me. I can't even get the display setting right!

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Turboladdade
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Re: New to Mac Pro

Post by Turboladdade » July 4th, 2010, 1:54 pm

There probably isn't any better resource for newbies than Apple's own Mac 101 portal. It contains a ton of information for very new Mac users.

http://www.apple.com/support/mac101/
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Re: New to Mac Pro

Post by blond_canadian » July 4th, 2010, 3:24 pm

Thanks for website and you are right....an excellent site. Thanks again
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Re: New to Mac Pro

Post by Turboladdade » July 5th, 2010, 9:43 am

blond_canadian wrote:Thanks for website and you are right....an excellent site. Thanks again
Of course you're encouraged to come here for help as well :D
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Re: New to Mac Pro

Post by NoggintheNomad » July 5th, 2010, 11:30 am

Welcome to Mac! You'll soon get the hang of it, basically it's much more intuitive than Windoze. Once you get it in your head that the OS isn't to be wrestled with like Windoze, and rather that it helps you along, you will have made the leap!
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Re: New to Mac Pro

Post by soundguyrob » July 5th, 2010, 8:09 pm

Check out Jeff Carlson's book: The Mac OS X Snow Leopard Pocket Guide.
I was a Tiger user that upgraded to Snow Leopard, this book was extremely helpful.
If you are really adventurous, You can download VMware Fusion for $79, as long as you have room on your drive, and a copy of Windows OS (XP, W7 or even the dreaded Vista) you can run those with your mac and ease into the OS X. But, like the nomad said, you'll soon forget all about Windoze.
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Re: New to Mac Pro

Post by APPLEBAPPA » July 26th, 2010, 1:16 am

Need good snowleopard 10.6.4 @manual anybody give me the clue ?
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Re: New to Mac Pro

Post by Turboladdade » July 26th, 2010, 1:52 am

Besides the couple that were already mentioned in this topic, you can give the Take Control series of Ebooks a try.

http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/catalog
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