Wiley Mac OS X Snow Leopard For Dummies 978-0-470-43543-4 Benutzerhandbuch

In This Chapter

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Understanding what an operating system is and is not

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Turning on your Mac

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Getting to know the startup process

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Turning off your Mac

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Avoiding major Mac mistakes

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Pointing, clicking, dragging, and other uses for your mouse

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Getting help from your Mac

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ongratulate yourself on choosing Mac OS X, which stands for Macintosh 
Operating System X — that’s the Roman numeral ten, not the letter X 

(pronounced ten, not ex). You made a smart move because you scored more 
than just an operating-system upgrade. Mac OS X Snow Leopard includes 
several new features to make using your Mac easier, and dozens of improve-
ments that help you do more work in less time.

In this chapter, I start at the very beginning and talk about Mac OS X in 
mostly abstract terms; then I move on to explain what you need to know to 
use Mac OS X Snow Leopard successfully.

If you’ve been using Mac OS X for a while, some of the information in this chapter 
might seem hauntingly familiar; some features that I describe haven’t changed 
from earlier versions of Mac OS X. But if you decide to skip this chapter because 
you think you have all the new stuff figured out, I assure you that you’ll miss 
at least a couple of things that Apple didn’t bother to tell you (as if you read 
every word in Mac OS X Help, the only user manual Apple provides, anyway!).

Tantalized? Let’s rock.

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