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Macintosh Troubleshooting Pocket Guide for Mac OS

By David Lerner, Aaron Freimark, Tekserve Corporation
November 2002
Pages: 80
Series: Pocket References
ISBN 10: 0-596-00443-5 | ISBN 13: 9780596004439
(Average of 1 Customer Reviews)

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The Macintosh Troubleshooting Pocket Guide covers the most common user hardware and software trouble. It's not just a book for Mac OS X (although it includes tips for OS X and Jaguar), it's for anyone who owns a Mac of any type-- there are software tips going back as far as OS 6. This slim guide distills the answers to the urgent questions that Tekserve's employee's answer every week into a handy guide that fits in your back pocket or alongside your keyboard.
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The press has called Tekserve Corporation, the idiosyncratic Macintosh repair store in New York City, "The Epicenter of Mac Culture in NYC", "The leader in Apple triage services" and "warm and eclectic - maybe even a little eccentric". Unfortunately, not everyone can get down to Tekserve's West 23rd St location for the clear, down-to-earth Mac troubleshooting advice that Tekserve's owners dispense. For the rest of us, O'Reilly & Associates has published the Macintosh Troubleshooting Pocket Guide ($12.95) written by David Lerner and Aaron Freimark, of "the world's best Macintosh repair shop". This slim pocket guide has the answers to frequently asked Macintosh troubleshooting questions. Imagine the quirky record store in the movie "High Fidelity," or the popular "Car Talk" show on National Public Radio, and you'll have a good idea of this book's flavor. Tekserver has long provided its customers with a free "Frequently Asked Questions" document. We recently discovered this FAQ sheet and realized that-- like New York itself-- it was too good to leave just for the New Yorkers. With the help of Tekserve, we turned this FAQ sheet into the Macintosh Troubleshooting Pocket Guide. The Macintosh Troubleshooting Pocket Guide covers the most common user hardware and software trouble, from disks stuck in drives to lost files. It's not just a book for Mac OS X (although it includes tips for OS X and Jaguar, the latest release), it's for anyone who owns a Mac of any type-- there are software tips going back as far as OS 6. The Macintosh Troubleshooting Pocket Guide distills the answers to the urgent questions that Tekserve's employee's answer every week into a handy guide that fits in your back pocket or alongside your keyboard.

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First Edition: November 2002
Series: Pocket References
ISBN: 0-596-00443-5
Pages: 80
Average Customer Reviews: (Based on 1 Reviews)

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Macintosh Troubleshooting Pocket Guide Review, October 26 2003

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This book is a must have for the experienced or beginner user. A well rounded guide to looking back at troubleshooting older hardware and version of the Apple operating system as well as OS X and newer platforms. The guide has many tips that clearly come from real world experience, not found at Apple’s website. The guide will fit in you pocket or tool case and cost is reasonable, there will be money left over for lunch.

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"Help is easy to find by just reading the no-nonsense questions and answers. Just because this booklet is small in content pages doesn't mean that it's lacking in solutions. It is jam-packed with helpful advice that can get you and your Mac back to full working order...And it won't take up much space on your computer desk."
--Macbeth Vannoy, North Coast Macintosh Users Group of Ohio, March 2003

"Don't be deceived by the book's small size--it packs an impressive amount of information and common sense into its 72 pages...This great little guide may just save your bacon one day. Highly recommended."
--Elsa Travisano, Macintosh Users Group, Oneonta, New York, May 2003

"These are so cute! These mini Pocket Guides from O'Reilly answer almost all the essential questions...anyone with even minimal experience at Mac OS systems, old or new, will be using these handy guides often...Slim as the book was, I found new and interesting information immediately. I even found out how to clean my PowerBook screen. No book has ever told me that before!"
--Stephen M.H. Braitman, BOOK BYTES, Jan.22, 2003

"A quick read and fun to look through and makes me feel so glad I own a Macintosh! I compare that to a bookcase full of Windows NT/2000 books and manuals I gave away a while ago. Now I'm going to find out what kind of lightening protection I have between my Cable Modem and my Mac."
--Robert Pritchett, MacNut, Jan 2003

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