My New Mac

Posted by tripwire45 on Jul 4, 2008 7:46 PM EDT
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This book came just in time...for my daughter, that is. She's a Graphic Arts major at a university in the Northwest and for some time, I've been trying to convince her to try working on a Mac. Please keep in mind, I'm not a Mac person. I do very well on my Ubuntu PCs, both at home and on the job, but I know that Macs are more or less the standard platform for the graphic design world. Fortunately for Jamie (my daughter), one of her uncles was willing to be generous and "donate" his MacBook to the cause (he was upgrading).

Jamie's MacBook and Wang's book arrived almost at the same time. Good thing too, because the first thing she wanted to do after firing it up, was to connect to our little WLAN and hit the Internet. If it was a Windows or Linux PC, I'd have said, "no problem", but where are things located on a Mac anyway?



That's where Wallace Wang's book comes in...to show me how. In the true tradition of that battle cry, "RTFM", I opened the pages and dove in. Ok, now what? Do I look for "wireless" or "network"? Finding things in the book was just like finding things on the Mac. Most people don't start with Chapter 1, page 1, and struggle to locate the power switch. Most people identify an area of personal interest and start from there. Jamie could figure out where the power switch was, so powering up the MacBook wasn't the issue. If it was, Project 1 (the book is divided into 52 "projects", rather than chapters) would have been great.Full Story

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