Recommended reading for learning OSX?

[fastbilly1]

A great book - O'Relly MAC OSX HINTS

I read that and the "Switching to Mac: The Lost Manual" books yesterday. The OSX hints one is more useful once you have it up and running, Switching to Macs was exactly what I was looking for. Sadly I keep thinking back to my days with OpenBSD (which I know alot of the core was taken from there, its just funny).

I grabbed one of the OSX86 discs and installed it on one of my EEE's lastnight. Sure it is alittle pokey for 10.5.6, but it works. So I am not borrowing the G4 tower, BUT in good news a friend is supposed to get a copy of Lion in the near future and said that I could borrow his old Snow Leopard Macbook. So hopefully I can get some experience with it. Right now the price of the Mac Pro I need to buy is around $7500. With aftermarket upgrades. It could be $6200 (dropping the processors to the lower level and some lesser aftermarket tweaks) but first I need to see if I can do the job.

To give a short description (without jeopardizing it for me). The job is working with incredibly time sensitive data from a variety of formats. You HAVE to have a Mac to do it since the best card readers for the highend cards only work on OSX currently. The faster/better you are at the jobs, the more money you will make - we arent talking chump change either.

[Hatta]

To give a short description (without jeopardizing it for me). The job is working with incredibly time sensitive data from a variety of formats. You HAVE to have a Mac to do it since the best card readers for the highend cards only work on OSX currently. The faster/better you are at the jobs, the more money you will make - we arent talking chump change either.

Sounds like a job for a powerful scripting language.

[fastbilly1]

What do you mean Hatta?

[Hatta]

It sounds like if the data is so time sensitive that the speed of the card reader is a limiting factor, that automation would save a lot of time. I dunno, maybe they're already highly automated though.

[fastbilly1]

Ah, sorry, brain fart. There is little automation since the industry does not have that many IT folk in it - I am hoping to fix some of that. Card reader speed is limited mostly by cost. I know the card reader I need to buy, it is just a grand since it is sata 2 and supports two cards at once. Most people just buy the $150ish one that is usb2.