Mac OS X Lion: Peachpit Learning Series Review

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(More customer reviews)I just bought a Macbook Air after 20 years of using MS Windows. Quite a change! The Mac was basically useless for the first couple of days. I even had trouble learning how to use the trackpad. After a few days of stumbling, I knew I needed help. Apple retail stores have a pricey series of classes, but I needed something quick that I could do on my own time.
I researched the various books on Macs and OS X and settled on the "missing manual" series, which I'm familiar with because of our iPad. No luck. The latest Missing Manuals are only up to Snow Leopard, and at these prices I'd like something current. MM will be available in a couple of months, I'm told. So I went to my local B&N to thumb through what is already out (a couple of weeks after the release of Lion) and I was so impressed I actually paid full price for this book. At first, I thought I might need the prequel, The "Little Mac Book" by the same authors, but after examining it I decided it was a bit too elementary and designed for new computer users or real beginners. This OS X Lion book, on the other hand, assumes you know how to use a mouse, a trackpad, surf the www, click "send" to send an email, select text in a drop down menu, and all the other things that most of us have been doing for many years -- albeit with another OS or an older Mac.
The book starts with the beginning -- the Finder (which as Alice says, "is a very good place to start") -- and uses this key feature as a kind of roadmap to the OS and the Mac as a whole. It then moves on to the apps and other features like security and peripheral devices. Since this is not an elementary book, it requires careful reading to pick up some of the little things that frustrate a Windows user making the transition, but it all seems to be there. I was planning on buying one of those "switching from PC to Mac" books, but at this point I no longer see the need. Old habits make way for the new.
The book is clear without trying to dumb things down. (Not to insult anyone, but "The Little Mac Book" by the same authors has much more elementary approach and is a bit too dumb for me.) I love Lion. It's a neat, friendly, flexible and powerful system. This book makes it work for me.

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The latest update of Robin Williams bestselling guide will have you working miracles in no time with Mac OS X Lion. With this book, you can learn in your own way, whether it's working through the lessons from start to finish, jumping straight to step-by-step exercises about new features, or looking up just what you need to know at that moment. There are hundreds of exciting tools and hidden gems in your Mac. And with the gentle, yet expert, hand of Robin Williams guiding you along the way, you will learn to take full advantage of all that OS X Lion has to offer. If you are new to Mac OS X, you'll learn to use your Mac with help from a world-renowned teacher. From there, you can move on to customize it to suit the way you work. And if you've been using Mac OS X already, you'll learn to use all of the new features in OS X Lion including Multi-Touch Gestures, Launchpad, Mission Control, the App Store, Mail, and much more.

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