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this is why Apple should make really good, big user guides. I would want to read it cover to cover for every new Mac I bought.
I remember doing that for my HP 41-CV when I was a junior in HS. I read every single freaking word and tried every function on the darned thing the first minute I laid eyes on the box in the mail!!!
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I just got my MBP today, so I salute a fellow Leader-recipient.
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[quote AAA]this is why Apple should make really good, big user guides. I would want to read it cover to cover for every new Mac I bought.
They do, it is called the Help Menu.
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I read the whole manual for my PowerMac 6100, learned a lot, except it didn't really say much about what the "interrupt" button actually did. For those that don't know, it was the button on the back of the machine right next to the restart button. Never had the courage to press it...
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I doubt there is much substance to this, but it seems like a larger than normal share of people have been buying Macs the last couple months. My experiences are only anecdotal as my research has been far from exhaustive. Last month, my girlfriend got herself a MacBook, her first Mac ever, and she's loving it. My father switched back to the Mac with a Core 2 Duo Mac mini (I believe that was last month as well after he grabbed one of those iMac G4s from a coworker to play around with. Loved it so much he went with a new Mac as well).
I picked up a demo model MacBook from CompUSA myself just two weeks ago. Lacking a bit in the RAM compartment, as this is not the current entry model, but last rev's entry model. The 1.83GHz, combo, 512 guy. $630, what more could I ask for. Still under warranty even. Also, it seems like a lot of people on this and other Mac forums have been upgrading.
Pretty weird as all the people that I know who are upgrading are well aware of Leopard's impending launch, but went ahead and pulled the trigger anyway. Also, none of the buyer's that I personally know are getting these computers for school, so that's not a factor in the timing either. Then again, having a system which will boot Tiger and not just Leopard is rather appealing. If Leopard is a little buggy out of the gate, there's no pressure as we all have perfectly acceptable Macs running Tiger.
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[quote BigGuynRusty][quote AAA]this is why Apple should make really good, big user guides. I would want to read it cover to cover for every new Mac I bought.
They do, it is called the Help Menu.
BGnR
Duh. Duh Duh. Duh.
I mean PRINTED BOOKS.
It's kind of hard to coil up in bed to read a laptop screen. My point was BOOKS not any other medium of communication.
And frankly their Help sucks. It's weak. It's not their A game like OS 9 help was. Just ask any new users if they can find what they are looking for in help. Amateurish.
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The HELP menu needs a lot of help.
It's a poor excuse for a User's Manual, but where the OS is concerned, it gives David Pogue a very comfortable income.
I just got his Missing Manual 'Phone book, and it's great. I can't wait for v2.
There don't some to be as many Mac Help books as are on the Windows side, but the fact that there are several tells me that Apple is just taking the cheap way out.
Having the HELP menu is *nice*, but I've read user manuals, and it's no user manual.
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I remember my brother bringing home a brand new Vic-20 (he was a salesman at Computerland) for me to play with one weekend. I went through that manual from cover to cover. I don't think I slept at all that entire weekend. Thus began my obsession with computers...
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[quote rz]I remember my brother bringing home a brand new Vic-20 (he was a salesman at Computerland) for me to play with one weekend. I went through that manual from cover to cover. I don't think I slept at all that entire weekend. Thus began my obsession with computers...
Ah yes...this just dragged up an old memory of what was probably the first time I read a computer manual - when I discovered that you had to "format" a floppy disk before the Commodore 64 could use it. Thankfully, my knowledge has grown quite a bit since then...
