When LION is your first OS X............

When you are a switcher and starting with OS X Lion, no choice, it will be installed in my new machine next month, where do I start?

Recommended reading; hopefully, eBook type material.

Recommended approaches from those who gave up the Gate to bite the Apple.

All suggestions recommended.

Luvntravln said:

When you are a switcher and starting with OS X Lion, no choice, it will be installed in my new machine next month, where do I start?

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If you're getting a brand new Macintosh computer next month…it will have Mac OS Mountain Lion installed on it (OS 10.8)…not Lion (OS 10.7).

So if you're looking for reading materials…you want Mountain Lion.

- Nick

Thanks Nick; yes I will be ordering shortly and taking delivery in San Diego probably Oct 15.

From what you wrote Mountain Lion 10.8 is the next revision of 10.

Anyone have any reading suggestions?

Luvntravln said:

From what you wrote Mountain Lion 10.8 is the next revision of 10.

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No…Mountain Lion (OS 10.8) is the CURRENT OS version…NOT the "next revision". Mountain Lion was released July, 2012.

If you do not understand what the current Mac OS version is…you will end up getting the wrong help materials!

- Nick

Thank you for taking the time to set me straight!!

Having bought the Tiger(10.4) version when I bought my first Mac, I can recommend David Pogue's Missing Manual:
OS X Mountain Lion: The Missing Manual: David Pogue: 9781449330279: Amazon.com: Books

Try one of the tutors for mac from the App store.
As a new user I found them very helpful.

You may be overthinking this -- a lot of switchers do.

Take a look at the essay I link to in my signature. Then take a stroll around Apple's web pages on Mountain Lion's features, check out the videos especially.

If you still think you need a book, look for the Visual Quickstart series or get Pogue's book mentioned above. Both excellent.

MightyGem said:

Having bought the Tiger(10.4) version when I bought my first Mac, I can recommend David Pogue's Missing Manual:
OS X Mountain Lion: The Missing Manual: David Pogue: 9781449330279: Amazon.com: Books

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Hi,

Yes, I have bought Pogue's book.

I have also purchased 100 Things Every Mac User Should Know (Macworld Superguides);
figured this couldn't hurt.

Quite sometime ago when I first started the investigation I bought


Switching from PC to Mac Survival Guide: Step-by-Step User Guide for Switching to a Mac: The Basics, Managing Hardware, Managing Media, and Much More (Mobi Manuals)

Thanks for responding.

docx said:

Try one of the tutors for mac from the App store.
As a new user I found them very helpful.

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I will purchase the 1 to 1; it will get double usage as I have to learn some stuff I do not use that my wife will use with her 11" MBA, e.g., iPhoto.

I will learn and teach!

chas_m said:

You may be overthinking this -- a lot of switchers do.

Take a look at the essay I link to in my signature. Then take a stroll around Apple's web pages on Mountain Lion's features, check out the videos especially.

If you still think you need a book, look for the Visual Quickstart series or get Pogue's book mentioned above. Both excellent.

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Chas, you are so right; I would suggest that switchers like me that ...hmmmm "overthing"...........think a lot, like me, do so in a lot of their life.

I research everything to death and then some. My form of insurance.

I also have no problem finding, evaluating, and accepting good advice. Thanks to everyone offering me advice on this forum.