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by: Derrick Story
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 004.165
EAN: 9780596008178
Format: Illustrated
ISBN: 0596008171
Label: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: November 17, 2004
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Sales Rank: 1202093
Studio: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Product Description:
You've coveted one for a long while, and now it's yours: the sleek and speedy PowerBook. It's as stylish as you wanted, as slick as you imagined, and as mighty as you hoped. So now what? The PowerBook Fan Book is your quick and fun guide to mastering all the features and taking advantage of the infinite advanced capabilities of your beloved new laptop. No PowerBook owner should be without a copy. Lightweight but power-packed, your PowerBook comes with all sorts of high-end features so that you can effortlessly enjoy portable connectivity, wireless networking, lightning-fast graphics, and much more. In either the 12-inch, 15-inch, or 17-inch model, the PowerBook boasts a PowerPC G4 processor with speeds topping the charts at 1.5GHz and 4x-speed SuperDrives, and it comes standard with AirPort Extreme--offering the fastest speeds in wireless networking--and Bluetooth. But there's a lot to learn before you know your trusty machine well enough to make the most of these many offerings. The PowerBook Fan Book is just the thing to get you up to speed in a flash with your new laptop. This compact, affordable, and accessible guide takes you through the process of getting familiar with your machine and OS X Panther, learning cool tricks and tidbits, and finding out about often little-known but must-have accessories for your favorite new piece of hardware. The ideal gift for anyone wielding the most desirable of Apple's laptops, this book includes sections on getting started, organizing your digital lifestyle, advanced features, using your PowerBook at home, at the office, or on the go, and tips and tricks for doing most anything and everything you could want. In no time, you'll be burning DVDs, crunching numbers, building a website, composing music, and editing digital video like an expert.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Did you just buy a new Powerbook? Is it your first? If so, buy this book.
At first glance, Powerbook Fan Book looks like a coffee table 'interest' book of diminutive size. The cover design and photo call to the Powerbook owner who enjoys reading about how great it is to be a Powerbook owner. But upon opening this book, It soon becomes apparent that it is a powerhouse primer for the Mac novice who just opened the box to their first Powerbook. The books dimensions are just larger than a CD jewel box. Obviously designed to be toted with the Powerbook itself.
Derrick ... Read More
Rating: - once you go mac, you never go back
Theres alot of usefull info packed into this small book, focusing primarily on what ordinary users need to know,
it helped me bond with my powerbook.
Rating:  - Why?
I am not understanding the rave reviews of this book. It's VERY expensive, barely 100 pages, and it gives a very cursory overview mostly of mac OS X, not really rhe powerbook in particular. I read it in 45 minutes, and it was OK, but I don't think I got my money's worth.
Rating:  - Great book for first time owners
This is the book to go along with your first time purchase of a powerbook, or a good present for someone getting a new powerbook. You could think of this trim form factor book as a super introductory manual that should have come in the box. Though Derrick does a good job of covering some additional topics that you won't find in the Apple documentation, like where to get good accessories and third party software.
This is not a book for a long time Mac owner. That reader wouldn't find much they ... Read More
Rating: - for a digital lifestyle
As the book says, using a PowerBook is a digital lifestyle statement to some of its fans. That might sound a trifle pretentious, if you don't have one of these gadgets. But Story describes bunches of cool ways to use it. These are in the key chapters 3 and 4.
He quickly describes the basics of using iPhoto to amass a collection of digital photos. And of using iMovies to view digital video. The chapters are somewhat short. There is enough detail to use the most common operations of these programs, ... Read More
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