Take Control News: Start Preparing for Leopard Now with New Ebooks

If you’re excited about Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, now scheduled for release on 26-Oct-07, make sure you’re ready to upgrade with the early-bird edition of “Take Control of Upgrading to Leopard.” This 60-page ebook not only walks you through the prep steps that help guarantee a trouble-free Leopard installation, it also comes with a free, instant-download upgrade to the 124-page full edition of the ebook, which will offer detailed advice on every aspect of installation, based on countless hours of meticulous research by Joe Kissell. In particular, the early-bird edition helps you evaluate if your current Mac will run Leopard well, how to make an appropriate
backup in case of installation problems, smart ways to clear disk clutter and unnecessary files, and whether you should rethink your partitioning scheme. The full version will be available as soon as Apple begins shipping Leopard; see the FAQ at the link above for details.

But there’s more! You can save 25 percent if you pre-order “Take Control of Customizing Leopard” along with buying the early-bird edition of “Take Control of Upgrading to Leopard.” In this title, Matt Neuburg helps you customize your new installation, with a special emphasis on new tweaks to old features and on helping you start using new features, such as Spaces and Time Machine. We can’t say much about Leopard until our non-disclosure agreement is lifted, but we plan to make the full ebook available to those who pre-order via our Check for Updates mechanism as soon as Apple begins selling Leopard.

For those of you who want to learn all about Leopard, we recommend our “I Love Leopard” bundle, which saves you 30 percent and includes the above-mentioned two titles; it also includes three more “Take Control of… in Leopard” pre-release titles: Sharing Files, Fonts, and Users & Accounts. We expect to ship these three additional titles at the same time as (or very shortly after) Leopard’s release. You’ll find the “I Love Leopard” bundle on the left side of both the “Upgrading” and the “Customizing” Web pages.

Owners of previous “Take Control of Upgrading to…” and “Take Control of Customizing…” ebooks can take advantage of a discounted price on these titles; click the Check for Updates button in your ebook to access the offer, or send us email if your ebook is too old to have a Check for Updates button. However, note that buying either of our bundles gives you a better discount than upgrading each title individually.