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From the Publisher
From the Introduction
MacOS Mojave is the 14th major version of Apple’s Unix-based operating system. It’s got very little in common with the original Mac operating system, the one that saw Apple through the 1980s and 1990s. Apple dumped that in 2001, when CEO Steve Jobs decided it was time for a change. Apple had spent too many years piling new features onto a software foundation originally poured in 1984. Programmers and customers complained of the ‘spaghetti code’ the Mac OS had become.
So today, underneath macOS’s classy, shining desktop is Unix, the industrial-strength, rock-solid OS that drives many a website and university. It’s not new by any means; in fact, it’s decades old and has been polished by generations of programmers.
Having run out of big cat species (Lion, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard), Apple has begun naming its Mac operating systems after rock formations in California. There was Yosemite, and then El Capitan, and then Sierra and High Sierra, after the Sierra Nevada mountain range. And now there’s Mojave, named after the California desert.
About This Book
To find your way around macOS Mojave, you’re expected to use Apple’s online help system. And as you’ll quickly discover, these help pages are tersely written, offer very little technical depth, lack useful examples, and provide no tutorials whatsoever. You can’t mark your place, underline, or read them in the bathroom.
The purpose of this book, then, is to serve as the manual that should have accompanied macOS-version 10.14 in particular. Whether you have an antique, hand-cranked 2012 iMac or one of the shiny new 2018 models, like the sleek updated MacBook Air or the compact, screenless Mac mini, this is your user guide.
MacOS Mojave: The Missing Manual is designed to accommodate readers at every technical level. The primary discussions are written for advanced-beginner or intermediate Mac fans. But if you’re a Mac first-timer, miniature sidebar articles called ‘Up to Speed’ provide the introductory information you need to understand the topic at hand.
When you write a book like this, you do a lot of soul-searching about how much to cover. Of course, a thinner book, or at least a thinner-looking one, is always preferable; plenty of readers are intimidated by a book that dwarfs the Tokyo White Pages.
On the other hand, Apple keeps adding features and rarely takes them away. So this book isn’t getting any skinnier.
Even so, some chapters come with free downloadable appendixes-PDF documents, available on this book’s ‘Missing CD’ page that go into further detail on some of the tweakiest features. (You’ll see references to them sprinkled throughout the book.)
Publisher : O’Reilly Media; 1st edition (January 29, 2019)
Language : English
Paperback : 880 pages
ISBN-10 : 1492040401
ISBN-13 : 978-1492040408
Item Weight : 2.8 pounds
Dimensions : 7 x 1.75 x 9 inches
Price: $25.99
