The Little iMac Book, Third Edition

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Summary: Beautifully designed, humorous and full of helpful hints
Review: "The Little iMac Book" is wonderfully non-threatening for beginners, and even experienced users will find some helpful hints in its pages. The book has a beautiful layout and is quite entertaining. It even manages to look iMac-like. I loved the author's use of humor. The book begins by introducing the reader to the Mac OS and proceeds on to what one can do with an iMac. Chapters cover using a web browser and AppleWorks, an integrated application suite. My mum recently bought an iMac and, being a novice user, found this book to be very helpful. I'd highly recommend this book to anyone with an iMac, novice and expert alike.

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Summary: The Little iMac book
Review: After purchasing 4 other iMac books, I took someone's recommendation to try Williams' approach. It did the trick: it presented computer/iMac literacy in accessible step-by-step tutorials and clearly told me what to do and what not to do. Previously, the combination of my ignorance and impatience resulted in nothing but crashes, hung programs, and Luddite sentiments. This book forces you to slow down and learn. The author's sequence of lessons is logically conceived, and the style is neither forced nor patronizing. For the next stage, I may go back to the Pogue books (Dummies series), as the author covers more ground and in a zestier style. But I wish I had saved myself some time and money and started with Williams.

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Summary: Nirvana for anally-retentive neophytes.
Review: After purchasing 4 other iMac books, I took someone's recommendation to try Williams' approach. It did the trick: it presented computer/iMac literacy in accessible step-by-step tutorials and clearly told me what to do and what not to do. Previously, the combination of my ignorance and impatience resulted in nothing but crashes, hung programs, and Luddite sentiments. This book forces you to slow down and learn. The author's sequence of lessons is logically conceived, and the style is neither forced nor patronizing. For the next stage, I may go back to the Pogue books (Dummies series), as the author covers more ground and in a zestier style. But I wish I had saved myself some time and money and started with Williams.

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Summary: A very user friendly book
Review: Almost like Mr. Pouge's "The iMac For Dummies", yet shorter and simpler to read. The book is not just for "dummies", but also for people who know how to work a computer. "The iMac For Dummies" is mainly for individuals who don't even know how to turn a computer on, and "The Little iMac Book" is for people that do, people who know a little more about computers.

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Summary: A Must For Newbies!
Review: As a new iMac user (and new to computers in general), Robin William's book was an excellent resource. It's loaded with tips, is quite easy to follow, and I gained confidence using the iMac while working through this book.

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Summary: The Little iMac book
Review: As a new iMac user, i was very dissapointed with the contents of this book. I found the information to be too vague. It has yet to provide answers to my questions.

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Summary: not worth the money
Review: Fortunately there are now more iMac books to choose from, and not just this one, which is not worth the money. It doesn't tell you anything about the FAX, nor does it tell you how to customize desktop, nor how to drag & drop other data from the Zip drive. It appears to be written for grade schoolers who never used a Mac before. Save your money.

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Summary: For Mac people only. Beginners will find it too "jumpy"
Review: I love Macs. This is not the best book for beginners, since it jumps from moving the mouse to icons. Although it is very informative, I found that there is a lot more to the iMac then what she wrote. The computer has so many possibilities and the book is so small, page-wise. Also, the pictures and text are small and hard to read. Get this if you want, but the better, more fun and informative book is definitely The iMac for Dummies by David Pogue.

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Summary: useless
Review: I've just switched from a PC to an iMac with OS X operating system and wish I hadn't. Not only has my new computer locked up at least 3 times in just a couple of days, but "Apple help"--which you can only access online--is worthless. Worse yet, there's essentially no "Help" material included on the machine's hard disk as there is with a Windows PC. ...After the support person revealed the missing steps to my husband we were unpleasantly surprised to learn that in the process of learning how to back-up a file on a CD we had turned two re-writable CDs into "read only" disks. This is a feature of Macintosh computers they don't mention in the "I switched to Apple" ads: if you use Apple software to burn your CDs, then once you put anything on a CD that's it. It is now a Read-Only CD no matter what it said on the label. ..."Apple Help" directed us to use "Disk Utility," and now that we've opened "Disk Utility" from two different locations we find that--surprise!--it won't erase our re-writable CD. It won't do anything, in fact: the menu pops up on the screen, but all the necessary buttons are dim rather than lit up. On an Apple machine, if a button is dim, you can't click on it. ...I'm sending the book back.

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Summary: The best iMac book for new iMac owners!
Review: If you're new to computers, like I am (and a rather large group of my friends), you'll love Robin's Little iMac Book for several reasons. It's small enough to get you started without being intimidating. When you need more information, her Little Mac Book fills in more information than you'll ever need. Her talent for teaching and presenting information in a manner that's enjoyable and understandable actually makes reading a computer book fun and productive. Robin's book tells me what I need to know without making me feel like a "dummy." I'm not interested in being a computer guru--I just want my Mac experience to be fun, educational and rewarding. And that's exactly what this book is.