Wiley Mac OS X Lion For Dummies 978-1-1180-2205-4 ユーザーズマニュアル

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 Lion includes several new features that 
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 Lion 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 ver-
sions 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!).

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