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What I have against this book is that Mac's are glorified and many of the programs and software that are available for PC's are not mentioned or are a side-note. This book needs a serious refresher and a balance in the slant that it has. This book is centered around Macs and has a definite bias towards them.
It doesn't. This book does have some valuable lessons, but honestly, save yourself the cash and do your own research on the web. Every screen shot in the book is of a Mac and like another reviewer has noted a lot of the information is outdated (including the screen shots of ancient Mac's).
I am a prospective educator that has been assigned to read this text for a graduate level course. Therefore, you would think this book would have a lot more references to PC's and tools that you could correspondingly use with them. There is nothing in the book that you could not find elsewhere and it is my belief that if you went elsewhere you would most likely get much better information.
Although I do not own a Mac I have used them a lot and think that they are certainly a good system, especially for multimedia purposes. Even according to the book itself, over 95% of the people that have operating system on their computer as of 2006 have a Windows platform.
Things change with technology rapidly. Solid information is not easy to come by. My students are the regular folk who are about 85% of the population.
Even though it has been around a while my pupils love it and it has been and is a big eye-opener to them. We think Tay Vaughan has been very helpful with this book. We buy the lastest magazine for the fancy stuff.
Multimedia: Making it Work, Seventh EditionAs a professor, who teaches at a community college, I find that this book, by Tay Vaughan, has been a real help to my multimedia students. My students are hard working folks that like this book very much because it is, and has been, a wonderful reference for understanding how technology works. My students love it.
While we do not have lots of money for fancy equipment we have found that this book is really helpful. No one can argue that but, how many people can keep up with the latest geegaw.
In a classroom, the teacher can supplement and update for students although we hate having to do that. A college I teach I have recommended dropping this book for the first semester multimedia course after having years ago been the person to get the book into the course.But now I would say a significant portion of the material is historical at best and about tools and technologies that the newcomers to this field will be puzzled why they are taking valuable time to learn when there is tons of new technologies and multimedia applications to learn about.I definitely would not recommend this book to the average reader. Each edition is most the same content as the previous. The content is getting very dated.
The author or the publisher should consider about any materials for the completion of the book that may be spread out of US especially in my case in Indonesia. It's really interesting while the author comes with new update of multimedia. Unfortunately, while I'm trying to get some information/material that should accompany the book at the web, they are not available for outside of US.
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