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Author:
Amit Singh
By Addison Wesley
Average Customer Rating:   
List Price: £40.99
Our Price: £33.86
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.44682
EAN: 9780321278548
ISBN: 0321278542
Label: Addison Wesley
Manufacturer: Addison Wesley
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 1680
Publication Date: 2006-06-19
Publisher: Addison Wesley
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Enormous book!, 2007-05-16
This is the biggest book I've ever read. Perhaps half a dozen others have topped 1K pages. But at 1600 pages, this is the biggest. The sheer weight of it makes it uncomfortable to hold for any length of time, so best read it at a table.
The author works for IBM, and there is a lot (in fact, I'd say excessive) of coverage of the IBM PowerPC 970 chip. There is some Intel CPU coverage, but it doesn't permeate the book as the 970 does.
I enjoyed the intro to Mac history - I don't have a strong Mac background.
The main reason that I don't rate this book highly is that it dwells too much on the lowest level. There is a great deal of coverage of the boot process. Code is analysed step by step. I'd have like to have seen more abstraction and description of the higher level architecture.
Very very detailed ...., 2006-08-19
Every single aspect of Mac hardware and a large extent system software is covered in depth - this really is a book for die-hard mac developers. It's truly not a book for a novice or even intermediate level user.
IMHO you really do need a firm understanding of hardware architecture to get the most from this book.
In places this book reads like an academic course book, and can be too 'dry'.
Intel is covered, but not in great depth. The focus is really on G4 and G5 class.
I'm left wondering who the intended audience really is for this book.
So, it gets 5 stars for being the definitive Mac hardware reference, and 3 stars for being far too 'academic' in tone.
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