[SassyPants]

Hey guys, I have a friend who just bought the new black Macbook. Her last laptop was a Dell, so she's a switcher, and she has no idea how to use Mac OS X. Where's the best way for her to learn how to use the system and all the differences between it and Windows?

She really seems clueless, it seems, and has no idea what Universal Binary is, or Boot Camp, or any of those things. Thanks in advance.

[Art Vandelay]

Try http://www.apple.com/support/mac101/ and http://www.apple.com/support/switch101/

[larrinski]

She doesn't need to know too much about things like boot camp, universal binary etc... The apple site is good to start. As a newbie she is welcomed here to get assistance. She will find mac users very helpful as I have

[TheIceMan]

This is the book she'll need, David Pogue's Missing Manual (Tiger Edition). Amazon has it for $18.87 (as of this post).

[ghporter]

Missing Manual books are good. We got the O'Reilly "Mac OS X Panther" Pocket Guide (with a German Sheppherd dog on the cover) and were quite pleased with the extra information it provided. On the other hand, Mac Help is MUCH better than Windows Help, and the paradigm of using the computer is almost exactly the same (with a few, easy to master exceptions). My wife had zero Mac experience when we got her iBook (and quite a bit of Windows experience), but she had almost no problem switching. And she wouldn't go back for anything.