• Full details on Apple's second-generation Power Macs, the 7200, 8500, and 9500--from the author who wrote Macworld's cover stories on the new machines!
  
  
• Up-to-date coverage of Apple's latest add-ons: the QuickTake 150 (Chapter 13), the Color LaserWriter, and the LaserWriter and StyleWriter families (Chapters 30 and 31)
  
  
• Tips on mastering the MacOS and System 7.5 (Chapters 11 and 22), on optimizing Power Mac performance (Chapter 25), and on expanding and upgrading your system (Chapter 29).
  
  
• Power tips for word processors (Chapters 2-4), spreadsheets (Chapters 5-6), databases (Chapters 7-8), publishing programs (Chapters 9-10), graphics software (Chapters 12-14), presentations programs (Chapter 15), and more.
  
  
• Expanded communications coverage (Chapters 15-16) -- learn how to surf the Internet and turn your Power Mac into a telephone, fax, and answering machine!
  
  
• Buying advice and backgrounders on multimedia technology, including QuickTime (Chapter 20) and music, MIDI, and audio (Chapter 21).
  
  
• The inside scoop on customizing your Mac (Chapter 24), maximizing your hard drive (Chapter 25), surviving with SCSI (Chapter 26), exchanging data with Windows computers (Chapter 27), and troubleshooting (Chapter 28).

• Expanded. Roughly 100 additional pages, for a total of 1200!
  
  
• Updated. Every chapter revised to cover new products, technologies, and the latest Mac OS versions. With frequent updates right here on Heidsite!
  
  
• Current. Full coverage throughout of the new, second-generation Power Macs (7200, 7500, 8500, 9500): their multimedia features, PCI slots, new memory-expansion schemes, and System 7.5.2. Also discusses upgrade strategies for first-generation Power Macs and covers the new Mac clones from Power Computing, Radius, and DayStar. On-line electronic updates ensure timeliness.
  
  
• The best applications coverage. Survival strategies for Word 6, details on PageMaker 6, and tips, shortcuts, and step-by-step boxes for WordPerfect, ClarisWorks, Microsoft Works, Excel, Photoshop, PowerPoint, Persuasion, QuarkXPress, and more. Plus backgrounders on each category of program: how they work, why you might use them, and tips for using them better.
  
  
• The best technology coverage. New sections on QuickTime VR, high-speed SCSI, PCI expansion, Ethernet networking, the Internet, Mac telephony, Photoshop acceleration, the Apple/IBM common hardware reference platform, and the family of PowerPC chips. Plus the most practical tips for maximizing System 7 and 7.5.
  
  
• The most authoritative. The only mega-page Mac book written by one author.

The CD-ROM

• 100MB of fantastic shareware and freeware compiled by BMUG, including utilities, games, business tools, educational software, and 100 fonts.
  
  
• 40 minutes of original video, dozens of graphics, and-for the first time-the best tips and backgrounders from the New Complete Mac Handbook in searchable form.
  
  
• Hundreds of Macworld "Star Ratings" capsule reviews, in searchable and printable form-with monthly updates available on Macworld Online.
  
  
• Interactive clinics: how to add memory, how to customize the Finder and Mac OS, how to run a PowerBook on solar power and from a car battery, how to use a laser printer to create T-shirt iron-ons, and in-depth tips and QuickTime movies for monitors, CD-ROM drives, keyboards, mice, hard disks, and floppies.
  
  
• Interviews with Apple product managers of the second-generation Power Macs, the new Performa 5200/6200 series, the QuickTake 150 camera, and the Color LaserWriter. And a preview of Apple's Copland Mac OS release.
  
  
• An exclusive interview with music legend Herbie Hancock, in which he describes how he uses the Mac in his musical endeavors. Includes exclusive concert footage and clips from his new album.

With tips, tutorials, and buying advice for
theentire world of Mac products and technologies,
the Macworld New Complete Mac Handbook
is the interactive way to master your Mac.