Mavericks Users guide

Have you looked at Amazon. I would look for the usual Missing Manual series. You can also make use of the Help menu. That's where most of the documentation has been since Snow Leopard.

Please feel free to write a user's guide.

I guess that is because, in Apple's philosophy, a great GUI even the whole OS does not need a user's guide. What you see is what you get. :-)

But there is much more than is dreamt of in that philosophy, Horatio.

It's all online these days. Good place to start: http://www.apple.com/support/osx/

Maybe they sell it as an iBook? 😉

As if you could read.

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Where was it stated you have to buy a manual? Where did you read that?

Kappy wrote:

But there is much more than is dreamt of in that philosophy, Horatio.

😁

1. The whole idea with Macs is that the OS is supposed to be intuitive and easy to understand. And fun. You are just supposed to jump right in and use it and learn by using. It's more right brain, creative and graphic, rather than left brain, i.e., verbal. You generally don't need a user manual.
2. This might be very unsettling for a person used to Microsoft, which has the opposite philosophy.
3. If there is something that needs some explaining, you can:
   1. use Finder > Help > Help Center. It's just like a manual! And it's built into the OS!
   2. search online.
   3. write in to this discussion. There are a lot of people with a lot of Mac knowledge here who will help you.
4. All that being said, I'm a fan of the Dummies books. There is one for Mavericks: OS X Mavericks For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)): Bob LeVitus: 9781118691885: Amazon.com: Books

davesnewlion wrote:

Especially from a company that pays no taxes at all anywhere on the planet and manufctures that iPhone in China for peanuts and sell it (a phone) for $700 and up.

Wow! can't wat to read up on these facts! Can you supply the links please?

Thank you.

Pete

davesnewlion wrote:

And I only downloaded ML two weeks before getting Mavericks.

Very bad timing. You should have read the Manual. 😉

Pete

There is none. There is no User's Guide for Mavericks. Really. Lets have a User's Guide. I think it's kind of strange that something as substantial as an Apple Operating system exists without a manual or User's Guide.

I don't remember that any version Mac OS, or Windows for that matter, ever came with a users manual. So, I don't know why you would expect to see or get one.

And, I've never seen anything in a 3rd party manual that wasn't covered somewhere in the built-in help screens.