Macworld® Mac® Upgrade and Repair Bible - Softcover

Stauffer, Todd

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0764532170 ISBN 13: 9780764532177

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1998

Synopsis

Keep Your Mac Smiling Does your Mac meet all your needs? Want to get the most bang for your upgrading buck? Macworld® Mac® Upgrade and Repair Bible will help you determine current needs, identify bottlenecks, prioritize upgrades, and repair problems. From popping the hood to replace the CPU to maximizing your Mac's multimedia capability, you'll find everything you need in this encyclopedic toolkit to keep your Mac in tip–top condition. The Complete Do–It–Yourself Guide to Mac Maintenance

• Check out the latest technology including USB, high–speed Internet, and DVD
• Speed up your Mac with easy tips for adding RAM, upgrading your processor, replacing the hard drive, and installing a faster modem
• Improve productivity with cool tools for time–saving telephony, speedy scanning, swifter printing, and more comfortable typing
• Add multimedia might with 3D cards, MIDI devices, and digital cameras
• Learn first aid for ailing Macs from crashes to System Folder conflicts
• Troubleshoot and repair hardware problems from SCSI conflicts to multimedia madness to uncooperative Ethernet
• Keep your PowerBook in top condition

Covers G3s, ADSL, FireWire, cable modems, and 3Dfx! CD–ROM loaded with more than 50 shareware, freeware, and demo tools for your Mac, including: Memory Mapper Stufflt Expander CacheSaver TattleTech Super Save Fonts Manager SoundApp Switch Synk 2.5.2 The Block DiskSurveyor Shareware programs are fully functional, free trial versions of copyrighted programs. If you like particular programs, register with their authors for a nominal fee and receive licenses, enhanced versions, and technical support. Freeware programs are free, copyrighted games, applications, and utilities. You can copy them to as many PCs as you like free but they have no technical support. www.idgbooks.com System Requirements: Mac OS 7.1; 68020 processor; 10–100MB hard disk space; CD–ROM drive

About this title

Review:

I like Todd Stauffer's writing, and boy this book has a lot of it: 1,000-plus pages. Egads! Right away, the personality in the book jumped off the page at me. I was expecting this, being familiar with Todd's work, primarily his writing with David Pogue on MacWorld Mac Secrets and other books.

Unbeknown to most PC users, there are many makes and models of the Macintosh, some of which were specifically designed never to be upgraded. Yet this book covers them all. Like other good books in this category, background and historical information is provided in addition to data on upgrades, maintenance and troubleshooting. Todd washes the whole engine here, not skimping on anything and often telling a good story along the way.

My only complaint has to do with the photographs. While the line art illustrations are done nicely, nearly all the photographs are too dark and contrast-y. This makes them useless in a book where such photographs are almost crucial to getting a point across. Ignoring that single thorn in this elephant's foot, however, I was completely satisfied and enjoyed the book. It's a valuable, useful reference I plan on keeping. --Dan Gookin

About the Author:

About the Author Todd Stauffer is the author or coauthor for over a dozen computer books including Small Business Office 97 For Dummies (IDG Books Worldwide). He's the cohost of the nationally televised "Disk Doctors" call–in computing show on JEC Knowledge TV. Todd is also a contributor to The Mac Report, NetProfessional, and Inside Line and the Mac columnist for Peak Computing Magazine and the Webintosh online news service. Before moving to Colorado, Todd was editor–in–chief of Texas Computing magazine, a freelance magazine writer, an advertising copy writer, and a technical editor.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0764532170
• ISBN 13: 9780764532177
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 984