Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition
by David Pogue & Adam Goldstein

Third Printing, June 2006

The following were fixed in the 3rd printing:
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Chapter 000 (front matter)
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Part Two: Welcome to Macintosh
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Part Two: Making the Move
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Chapter 000 (front matter)
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[updated biographies]
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Chapter 000 (front matter)
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[updated book list]
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Chapter 000 (front matter)
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Appendix B: Running Windows on the Mac....
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Chapter 00 intro
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And then there's the Mac mini, Apple's cheapest Mac ever. For $500, you get a three-pound, silvery module with a 
combination DVD player/CD burner and enough processing power to handle all but the most demanding graphics and 
music software. You have to bring your own display, keyboard, and mouse, but if you're switching from a Windows 
PC, you've already got those components lying around anyway.
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And then there's that Intel processor that sizzles away inside all 2006 Mac models. It not only gives you delicious 
speed, but it also lets you run Windows XP--and Windows XP programs--at blazing speed, right there on your Macintosh. 
(Hell has really frozen over this time.) Because you were smart enough to wait until now to pick up this book, you can 
enjoy Appendix B, "Running Windows on the Mac," which makes its debut in this printing.
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Chapter 00 (intro)
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see Appendix B, the "Where'd It Go?" dictionary
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see Appendix A, the "Where'd It Go?" dictionary
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Chapter 00 (intro)
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There isn't yet a single virus that runs in Mac OS X.
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There isn't yet a single widespread Mac OS X virus.
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Chapter 00 (intro)
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It came as a surprise to millions, then, that when Apple announced that, starting in 2006, Macs will come with Intel 
chips inside.
The press, understandably, went berserk at the concept of Apple dropping its long-promoted G4 and G5 processor for 
chips from its former archenemy, Intel. Still, the announcement got a lot more attention than it deserves, at least 
for everyday Mac fans, since nothing will change in day-to-day computer-using routines. Intel-based Macs will still 
be every bit as fast, crash-proof, and virus-immune as their older G4- and G5-based ancestors, and will run exactly 
the same operating system.
So what's the big deal? 
For one thing, if you like, you'll be able to install Windows on your Intel-based Mac, allowing you to bypass the Mac 
OS entirely--along with the instructions in the rest of this book. Installing Windows on your Mac will let you run any 
programs for which you haven't found a good Mac OS X alternative. Of course, it also opens up all the problems you 
thought you'd left behind by switching to the Mac in the first place

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Intel Inside
In the Windows world, those "Intel Inside" stickers are everyday sights. It came as a surprise to millions, though, when 
Apple announced that, starting in 2006, Macs would come with Intel chips inside.
Yes, that Intel. The company that Mac partisans had derided for years as part of the Dark Side. The company that Steve 
Jobs routinely belittled in his demonstrations of PowerPC chips (which IBM and Motorola supplied to Apple for more than 
a decade). The company whose marketing mascot Apple lit on fire in a 1996 attack ad on TV.
Why the change? Apple's computers can only be as fast as the chips inside them, and the chips that IBM had in the works 
just weren't keeping up with the industry. As one editorial put it, "Apple's doing a U-turn out of a dead-end road."
But behind the scenes, Apple had to execute two massive software transitions:
Operating Systems. Apple has already recompiled (rejiggered) Mac OS X to run on Intel chips, beginning with Mac OS X 10.4.4. 
The new Macs start up and run much faster than the old Macs, thanks to the endless march of speed improvements in the 
chip-making world.
The mind-blowing part, though, is that the new Macs are capable of running Microsoft Windows, too. That's right, the 
unthinkable has happened: you can now run thousands of Windows-only programs for business, accounting, gaming, and more, 
right on your Intel-based Mac--and dive right back into Mac OS X when you're finished.
You can take either of two avenues, both of which are described in Appendix B. First, you can install Apple's free Boot 
Camp utility, which lets you restart your Intel-based Mac in Windows. Alternatively (or additionally), you can install 
an $80 program called Parallels Workstation, whose huge advantage is that it doesn't require a restart; you can have 
Windows in a window while still remaining in Mac OS X.
The opposite, by the way, is not true: You can't run Mac OS X on, say, Dell and HP boxes. Hackers have attempted to 
jerry-rig such a system, but Apple has done everything in its legal and technical power to stop them. 
Programs. The other half of the Mac experience, of course, is the library of programs: TextEdit, Photoshop, Word, and 
so on. Luckily, Intel-based Macs run today's versions of most programs seamlessly, thanks to an invisible translation 
program code-named Rosetta. You'll have only two indications that you're using a program originally designed for 
PowerPC-based Macs: first, you'll see a notation in the program's Get Info window (saying Application: PowerPC instead 
of Application: Universal). Second, you'll probably discover that the program isn't as fast as it used to be. 
To make their programs perform at full speed on Intel-based Macs, programmers have to update their wares. All the big 
software companies have promised to make their programs into universal binaries--programs that run equally well on 
PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs with a double-click on the very same Finder icon. You can expect to have to pay an upgrade 
fee to get the new, universal software versions.
(Disk-intensive programs like video and audio editors are among those that won't run successfully, if at all, in Rosetta. 
If your job involves these apps, you should not upgrade to an Intel Mac until they've been issued as universal binaries.)
Back in the real world, the chip inside a computer is like the engine in a car. It determines how fast the thing can go, 
but most people do just fine without knowing the details what's going on inside. So if all this talk about architectures 
and chips makes your brain hurt, you can at least take comfort in one fact: No matter which kind of Mac you've got Tiger 
installed on, every feature, tip, and trick you've learned from this book will work exactly the same..
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Chapter 00 (intro)
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Chapter 1
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Chapter 4
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Your Mac OS X machine can still run this library of older software
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Pre-Intel-chip Macs can still run this library of older software
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Chapter 4
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 (Note: The following pages apply to Macs that do not contain an Intel chip. Intel Macs can't run Classic.)
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Chapter 4
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Chapter 5
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Part Two: Welcome to Macintosh
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Part Two: Making the Move
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Chapter 7
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Note: On the other hand, remember that you can still run your old-favorite Windows programs--if you have a 2006-or-later 
Mac. See Appendix B.
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Chapter 7
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If you absolutely can't find a replacement for your favorite Windows programs, you have one last choice
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If you absolutely can't find a replacement for your favorite Windows programs, and you don't have an Intel Mac that can 
run Windows programs at full speed (Appendix A), you have one last choice
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Chapter 8
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One of the biggest perks of Mac OS X is its preinstalled collection of over 50 great-looking fonts
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One of the biggest perks of Mac OS X is its preinstalled collection of great-looking fonts
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Chapter 8
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Cut, Copy, Paste...Ctrl+Z, C, P...Command-Z, C, P
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Cut, Copy, Paste....Ctrl+X, C, P...Command-X, C, P
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Chapter 11
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If you Shift-click a link, Safari opens that page in a tab behind the one you're reading. 
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If you Shift-Command-click a link, Safari opens that page in a tab behind the one you're reading. 
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Chapter 11
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Or click Decline to lock out the person from sending you messages--a good trick if someone's harassing you.
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Or click Block to lock out the person from sending you messages--a good trick if someone's harassing you.
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Chapter 14
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You get the window shown at top in Figure 14-5. 
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The Dictionary's no-nonsense lookup window appears.
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Chapter 14
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Note: Disk Utility can't verify, repair, erase, or partition your startup disk--the disk on which your system software is 
currently running. That would be like a surgeon performing an appendectomy on himself--not a great idea. (It can fix the 
permissions of the disk it's on, thank goodness.)
If you want to use Disk Utility to fix or reformat your startup disk, you must start up your Mac from a different system 
disk, such as the Mac OS X Install disc. 
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Note: In Mac OS X 10.4.3 and later, Disk Utility can, for the first time in Mac history, check the startup disk for 
damage--the disk on which your system software is currently running. (You used to have to start up from a different 
disk first.) It can also fix the permissions of the disk it's on, thank goodness.
Any other operation, like reformatting, erasing, partitioning, or actually repairing the disk, still requires the Mac 
to start up from a different disk (your Tiger DVD, for example). Otherwise, it'd be like a surgeon performing an 
appendectomy on himself--not a great idea.
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Chapter 16
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Appendix: The "Where'd It Go?" Dictionary
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Appendix A: The "Where'd It Go?" Dictionary
Appendix B: Running Windows on Macintosh
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Chapter 17 (Appendix B)
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[insert new Appendix about Boot Camp, Parallels, and running Windows on the Macintosh. This Appendix is available as 
a free download from missingmanuals.com - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/macxtigermm/intel-macs-reprint.pdf ]
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Chapter "18" (index)
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these entries:]
Boot Camp, 7, 495-498
Parallels Workstation, 7, 498-499
Windows (Microsoft), running in Mac OS X, 7, 495-499