Wiley Mac OS X Leopard For Dummies 978-0-470-05433-8 ユーザーズマニュアル

In This Chapter

Understanding what an operating system is and is not

Turning on your Mac

Getting to know the startup process

Turning off your Mac

Avoiding major Mac mistakes

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

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 Leopard includes a plethora
of new or improved features to make using your Mac easier and dozens more
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 important information that
you need to know to use Mac OS X Leopard successfully.

If you’ve been using Mac OS X for a while, you might find some of the infor-
mation in this chapter 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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