Macbook Air Quick Start Guide

Welcome to your new MacBook Air. We’d like to show you around. Let’s get started Let’s get moving Multi-Touch gestures Get to know your desktop iCloud An important note When you start your MacBook Air for the first time, Setup Assistant will help It’s easy to move files like documents, email, photos, music, and movies You can do a lot of things on your MacBook Air using simple gestures The desktop is where you can find everything and do anything on your Mac. iCloud stores your music, photos, documents, calendars, and more. And Please read this document and the safety information in the Important you get going. Just follow a few simple steps to quickly connect to your Wi-Fi to your new Mac from another Mac or a PC. The first time you start your on the trackpad. Here are some of the most popular ones. The Dock at the bottom of the screen is a handy place to keep the apps you it wirelessly pushes them to your Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and even Product Information Guide carefully before you first use your computer. network, transfer your stuff from another Mac or a PC, and create a user new Mac, it will walk you through the process step by step. All you have use most. It’s also where you can open System Preferences, which lets you your PC. All without docking or syncing. So when you buy a song on one account for your Mac. to do is follow the onscreen instructions. customize your desktop and other settings on your Mac. Click the Finder device, it’s instantly available on all your other devices. When you adjust Learn more AC plug icon to quickly get to all your files and folders. your calendar, all your devices stay up to date. And with Photo Stream, You can find more information, watch demos, and learn even more about Headphone SD USB 3 Thunderbolt You’ll also be able to log in with your Apple ID. This will allow you to shop your latest photos appear everywhere you want to see them, automatically. MacBook Air features at www.apple.com/macbookair. the App Store, iTunes Store, and Apple Online Store. It will let you keep in The menu bar at the top has lots of useful information about your Mac. To customize your iCloud settings, open the Apple menu, select System touch using Messages and FaceTime. And it will let you access iCloud, which To check the status of your wireless Internet connection, click the Wi-Fi icon. Preferences, and click iCloud. Then sign in with your Apple ID and choose Help is automatically set up on your Mac in apps like Mail, Contacts, and Calendar. Your Mac automatically connects to the network you chose during setup. the iCloud features you want to use. You can often find answers to your questions, as well as instructions If you don’t have an Apple ID, you can create one in Setup Assistant. and troubleshooting information, in Help Center. Click the Finder icon, Click Double click Pinch to zoom Rotate click Help in the menu bar, and choose Help Center. Press down anywhere on the trackpad Press down two times anywhere on the Zoom in and out of photos and web Turn your thumb and finger clockwise MagSafe 2 USB 3 to click. Or, with Tap to Click enabled, trackpad. Or, with Tap to Click enabled, pages more precisely by pinching your or counterclockwise to rotate an image. Help Menu bar Wi-Fi Power AC power Power simply tap the surface. double-tap the surface. thumb and finger. menu status OS X Utilities adapter cord button If you have a problem with your Mac, OS X Utilities can help you repair FaceTime HD camera your computer’s flash storage, restore your software and data from a Time Machine backup, or erase your flash storage and reinstall OS X and Apple applications. You can also use Safari to get online help. If your Hello. Mac detects a problem, it opens OS X Utilities automatically. Or you can open it manually by restarting your computer while holding down the Command and R keys. Secondary click (right click) Two-finger scroll Switch between full-screen apps View Mission Control Click with two fingers to open shortcut Brush two fingers along the trackpad Swipe with three fingers to move Swipe up with three fingers to see Support menus. Or, with Tap to Click enabled, tap to scroll in any direction—up, down, from one full-screen app to another. every open window on your Mac. Your MacBook Air comes with 90 days of technical support and one year two fingers anywhere. or sideways. of hardware repair warranty coverage at an Apple Retail Store or an Apple Authorized Service Provider. Visit www.apple.com/support/macbookair for MacBook Air technical support. Or call 1-800-275-2273. In Canada, call 1-800-263-3394. Swipe to navigate Smart zoom View Launchpad Learn more Swipe with two fingers to flip through Double-tap the trackpad with two Pinch with four fingers to view Choose System Preferences from the Quick Start Guide web pages, documents, and more. fingers to quickly magnify a web page. all your apps in Launchpad. Apple menu and click Trackpad to learn Not all features are available in all areas. MagSafe 2 power Multi-Touch more about gestures. System connector trackpad TM and © 2012 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. Designed by Apple in California. Printed in XXXX. Finder Dock Preferences 034-6587-A Launchpad Mission Control Safari web browser Mail iTunes Calendar Messages iPhoto iMovie Mac App Store Launchpad is the home for all the group them together in folders, Mission Control gives you a screen apps, and Dashboard, the Click the Safari icon in the Dock between pages. Double-tap with Mail lets you manage all your popular email services like Gmail, With iTunes, you can organize and movies, TV shows, books, and more. Keep track of your busy schedule send invitations using contact info Just log in with your Apple ID, and device and pick it up on another. iPhoto is the best way to organize, select the photo and click Share iMovie puts all your video clips trailers with just a few clicks. And The Mac App Store is the best way for your personal use and even apps on your Mac. Just click the or delete them from your Mac. bird’s-eye view of everything home of mini-apps called widgets. and surf the web quickly and easily two fingers to magnify a page, email accounts from a single, Yahoo! Mail, and AOL Mail. You can play your digital music and videos iTunes is also where you’ll find the with Calendar. You can create from the Contacts app, then see you can send unlimited messages And if you want to talk to someone browse, edit, and share your photos in the bottom right of your screen. in one place and gives you the iMovie lets you import video from to find and download thousands of download them again. The Mac Launchpad icon in the Dock, and When you download an app from running on your Mac. Click the Click anything to zoom in on it. with Multi-Touch gestures. Scroll then double-tap again to return ad-free inbox, even when you’re also use Mail for the free me.com on your Mac. And you can shop in App Store for iPad, iPhone, and separate calendars—one for home, who has responded. Use iCloud including text, photos, videos, and face to face, you can start a video on your Mac. You can organize your Or click Create to turn your favorite editing tools and special effects most popular digital video cameras, apps for your Mac, from games and App Store lets you know when app your open windows are replaced by the Mac App Store, it automatically Mission Control icon in the Dock, Think of Mission Control as the hub up or down with two fingers on the to the original size. Or pinch to not connected to the Internet. It email account you get with iCloud. the iTunes Store for new music, iPod touch. another for school, a third for work. to update calendars on all your more to your friends on a Mac, iPad, call* just by clicking the FaceTime photo library by Faces, Places, and shots into photo books, calendars, you need to quickly turn them your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, social networking to productivity and OS X updates are available, so a full-screen display of all your apps. appears in Launchpad. and your desktop zooms out to of your system—view everything trackpad. Swipe right and left with zoom in and out. works with most email standards— The first time you open Mail, Setup See all your calendars in a single devices automatically or share iPhone, or iPod touch. With iCloud, icon in the top-right corner of the Events. To send photos by email and cards. into something memorable. You or the FaceTime HD camera on apps and more. New apps install you always have the latest versions. Arrange apps any way you want, display all the open windows in and go anywhere with just a click. two fingers to go back and forth including POP3 and IMAP—and Assistant will help you get started. window or choose to see only the calendars with other iCloud users. you can start a conversation on one Messages window.

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