Special Edition Using Mac OS X Tiger
| Mac OS X has been around for a while now (this is the fourth edition of this book) and if you are still using Mac OS 9 or earlier, you probably fall into one of two camps. Camp 1 consists of those people who are running Mac OS 9 on old hardware, such as that produced before Mac OS X was released. If you are in this camp, you should really consider getting a new Mac. The many improvements made in hardware since Mac OS 9 was the standard OS are almost as useful as the improvements that OS X made versus OS 9. Camp 2 includes those people who are using a modern Mac but have chosen to continue running under Mac OS 9 for some reason until now. Perhaps an application they rely on has just been updated for OS X (unlikely since most Mac applications have had OS X versions for a couple of years). If you are in camp 1 and get new hardware, Mac OS X will be installed by default, so you don't need instructions on how to upgrade from version 9. If you are in camp 1 and don't get new hardware, you aren't likely to be happy with Mac OS X so I recommend that you stick with OS 9 until you can get a new Mac. If you are in camp 2, well, you'll just have to make the jump to OS X from Mac OS 9 without detailed instructions. Because moving to Mac OS X version 10.4 from Mac OS 9 isn't a likely scenario, I don't provide the detail to make that transition here. (Even though this is a huge book, I do have page limitations believe it or not!) Generally, the steps you follow are similar to those in the Erase and Install option described earlier in this appendix.
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