Easy Mac OS X v10.3 Panther In Full Color
by Kate Binder
Que Publishing
ISBN 0-7897-3074-X, 278 pages
$19.99 US, $28.99 CN, £14.50 UK
Within this gimme just the basics and nothing more book is an impressive, comprehensive, thorough introduction to what’s what and how it all works in Panther. Lessons are individualized, focused, well-conceived, start-to-finish exercises in which tasks are explained with clarity and precision. This publisher’s Easy … format uses numbers, bullets, arrows, and color-coordinated reference text to break just the facts of OS X v10.3 into tidy infochunks for easy understanding.
Easy Mac OS X v10.3 Panther In Full Color is best suited to Panther newcomers who are already familiar with using a computer (any computer), and who have the ability to learn from sequenced printed steps. Computer tutors and lab instructors will be grateful to publisher and author for taking so much of the grunt and grind out of operating system fundamentals.
Here’s a hint! If you, an experienced Macintosher, are serving as an unpaid Panther tutor or help desk for friends/family/co-workers, have each of these innocents plunk down twenty bucks immediately and call you (not very often from now on) only to say how pleased they are to have learned more than they ever thought they didn’t know, all with the help of this book.
For the appropriate readers, Easy Mac OS X v10.3 Panther In Full Color will be a lifesaver, and it is for them we award a MyMac.com rating of four.