Leopard replacement for Landau's Mac OS X Help Line book?

Can anyone recommend a Leopard replacement for Ted Landau's Mac OS X Help Line? I have the 10.3 and 10.4 versions of this invaluable troubleshooting guide and wanted to recommend the 10.5 version to a friend with that OS, but I just found out that he decided not to update it for Leopard. Would really appreciate knowing about a similar comprehensive, literate, easy-to-understand troubleshooting manual for 10.5, if there is one as good as Landau's. Thanks for any good suggestions!

I'm traveling and haven't had a chance to check it out yet. But I'll look at it as soon as I have a chance to get to a bookstore.
I'm actually trying help out a friend who's just bought her first Mac in about 10 years, after years of working only with Windows--want to save her investing in a bunch of expensive manuals that tell you everything you need to know, occasionally in English, except how to find out what's wrong and fix it, which is the only thing I want to know! I've used Landau's guides for Panther and Tiger, and was dismayed to find out that he didn't feel like rewriting 1200 pages for Leopard. So I'm curious to see the book you recommend, which sounds good--will let you know.

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Yes, Gray Install Discs, the ones that come with Macs are Machine specific.
You need the Retail version.
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Will Apple offer a matte replacement for the Alum Macs Glossy Screen?

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The glare was intolerable for anyone with an artistic eye.
I solved the problem imperfectly with a anti glare film (photodon) and its a good temp solution.
But ultimately can anyone speculate whether apple will offer a replacement matte screen? I know its easily removable; can a matte screen be added in place of the glass and still have a great display? Might they offer it as an option in the future? If not; why not?
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It is simply a sheet of plate glass held in place with magnets. Supposedly it has some sort of anti-glare coating on it, but it's not apparent. You might try taking it off and bringing it to an art supply store to have them cut you an identically sized piece of anti-glare glass. I'm surprised that by this point there isn't already an after-market supplier making them for the iMac.

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I have snow leopard running, and last night I needed to use amsn opposed to the regular messanger for mac as I needed the video capabilities to connect with a user using windows and msn.
I've never had a problem before but that was before snow leopard. Apparantly the problem is with the windows side not amsn.
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If you have any iTMS purchases on your there the transfer of purchased content from the iPod to authorised computers has been introduced with iTunes 7. A paragraph on it has been added to this article: Transfer iTunes Store purchases using iPod
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What Windows OS are you using? Are you networked?
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Install Snow Leopard for a specific mac

Using the retail Snow Leopard disc, is there a way to force it to install all the needed parts for a specific mac? My example is: I have a Mac Mini I want to use to set up what will be a replacement hard drive for a MacBook Pro. I want to make sure the OSX that gets installed for the MacBook Pro has all it needs to function as if it came directly from Apple or in other words, it's own specific default install.

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I have purchased two Unibody Mac Mini's (A1347) on eBay (one 2010 and one 2011) and both have had the hard drives removed. Now hard drives are easier to replace, but the Unibody Mac's require a rubber or plastic cover and two mounting screws. A good picture of both can be found here:
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how much does it cost to replace a broken display screen for a 21" Mac ?

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Since Palm Desktop is no longer in active development, is there a Palm Desktop replacement for Mac and iPhone?
http://kb.palm.com/wps/portal/kb/common/article/33219_en.html#mac
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If only Apple did something like that (all-in-one-application personal organizer with contacts, memos, calendar, to do lists, etc)
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http://apple.com/feedback
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Is Apple about to introduce a replacement for iWeb?? and where can I download iWeb to replace the one I lost??

Having spent a little time searching for a replacement download for iWeb (details of why below) it seems that I cannot find it anywhere in Apple Land. From my limited experience here (iphone, macbook pro, airport extreme and airport express) it looks like Apple gradually withdraws stuff prior to introducing something really exciting to replace it.
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Give Apple feedback directly by going to http://www.apple.com/feedback.

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