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How to Use MacBook Pro - New to Mac Beginners Guide 2021

Mar 19, 2024
Hey guys, in today's video we're going to go over the basics of your

macbook

air or

macbook

pro. It's the exact same instructions for both, so before we get started I just want to show you a few things that you might want to buy right away. which is this right here, this is a USB hub so that's what you would need because you'll notice that on the side of your Mac you only have these two ports so you might want to buy one of these so you can connect any external hard drive . or USB drives on top of that, to be able to charge your new Mac again, it doesn't really matter which one you have, just plug this in here, either side will work, this will go into your outlet and then this part will go here so just plug it in there and you're done , it's charging now when you first get your Mac, you don't really need to charge it right away because it should already have some charge and turn your Mac on again, regardless of if it's a MacBook Air. macbook pro just open it up and you'll see that it will automatically start turning on if for some reason it doesn't, on the top right you'll see that button so let me show you again it's on the top right.
how to use macbook pro   new to mac beginners guide 2021
They just need to press it because it's touch ID plus a button and you guys can go ahead, press it to access your Mac once it turns on. We can start everything else now if you want to activate it. Turn off your Mac, you should always go to the menu and turn it off from the Apple logo; However, if you need to force it to shut down because it gets stuck at any time, then yes, simply pressing that button and holding it will turn it off. below, so let's start with one of the main basics that we have to configure before we do anything, go to your system preferences, so your system preferences you will see down here and it will be there by default, however, Let's say you don't see them.
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If it's there, you can always go up here, in the top right corner, you'll see your search highlighted, so that's this icon. Here we'll click on that icon and type in system preferences, so if I don't see anything that I'm looking for or I clicked on it and then I'm going to highlight search and I search for it, so here are my system preferences. I can click on it and from there I'll see this and I want you to do it. set something essential right now, so if you have a mouse down here you'll see a mouse or a trackpad, you can set both up to half right click and make it a little bit faster because right now it's probably too slow like I am right now and we're going to do other things too, so this applies to both, okay, whether the trackpad or the mouse is the same again, we'll go to the trackpad for now and under the trackpad we'll enable touch. click, which is very, very important, so down here we'll see this, just put a check mark there by clicking on it, okay and at this point we don't have to click on things anymore, so you don't have to than to do that.
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Just tap the same way you tap the screen on your iPhone or iPad, just tap the trackpad to select things, no more clicking, which is great now that its tracking speed for most of you might think that's what fast enough, but once you speed it up, you'll see it's much better. Now click. Some of you may not want to push as hard, so you may want to go light or just leave it as is since we won't have to do that for now. Click more, so that's okay. I'll leave it in the middle for now, but yeah, we won't have to click anymore.
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You can also do silent clicking. That's also an option down here, but we'll leave that out. for you later just customize it, but this is the first thing we need to do. I want to show you other options here that we have, by the way, they should all be enabled, even this right here, I would put a check mark and just go. about each one and see what each gesture does, like this, swiping through pages, how they get to the notification center and all that, because you can do a lot of things right here with your trackpad, so the first gesture you need to know is this one here and that one just opens everything, so let's say you guys have a bunch of windows here, so I have this here and I also have this in the background, we have a mess here and I just want to see. my desk because I have some documents there, just put your hand on top of here and open it, that's like the same thing you would do if you had an iPad, for example, the same gesture to bring anything back.
I have to do like this with my hand, so I'm going to do like this and then everything will go back to something else that you can do with four fingers, just go up and you'll see all the windows open at this point. Over time I can go back like this. I can go back to that view so I can select a window like music or I can go like this and select something else, so I'm just using four of my fingers and I'm swiping up and I can swipe down to do that, so those are very, very important gestures.
Now another gesture, let's say they're in Safari or even Google Chrome and they're searching for something, so I Google searched on YouTube. channel here second layout and I want to go back, well I don't have to press the back button there, I can just take two of my fingers and if I come across this page, I can just swipe and then I'll go back to the previous one. and I can even go back to what it was before just by swiping like this so I can swipe right and left to see if I want to go back or forward within a page.
Now let's say that you are working and then you want to. to see all your apps and programs, well, there's a quick way to do that again. gestures all I'm going to do is this this gesture I'm going to close my hand I'm going to go on top of here close my hand and I'm going to see all this so I can slide with just two fingers. I can swipe to see all the programs I have here and I can open any of these to get out of here. I can just click in the middle, for example, it'll take me out of there with this one with two fingers, we'll just swipe and we'll see all of our widgets, so here we see notifications for our widgets.
Anything else we can just swipe back and there we go, so again just swipe two fingers and I'll see one more thing that I didn't show you is just swipe up and down, which works fine if I swipe down with my four fingers. I'm going to see this, I'm just going to come back if I swipe up, I'm going to see all my windows and remember you have to right click, so right clicking is just two fingers, you guys can tap and there we go, I've got my right. Clicking where will give me other options, I also want to point out that you don't actually need to click here, so you have to press down to click.
You can tap to click on things just like you would on your ipad to click on things you can tap to click here so I can tap to click so I don't need to press down right here my touchpad to activate my click so that I don't have to press it to actually close anything or open anything so again I can tap very lightly and that will work fine as long as you activate your settings like I showed you so if you have a mouse it will be similar to what I just showed you, however, what I want them with the mouse, let's go back to our trackpad anyway and make sure that with the mouse they have a secondary click.
The secondary click would be the right click, so enable it and you are good to go, this is how you enable the right click. on your mouse or right here on your trackpad exactly the same instructions, so let's go back and then we'll close this for now and at this point we can right click on our screen, for example, and we'll look at these options and Here are some basic options that maybe want right away, so just to create a new folder, we can just click on a new folder and we have successfully created a new folder right here so we can move that folder to the site this is ours. desktop so we can open this folder that we created on our desktop and drag any file there to delete anything from your Mac, like this folder here, images, documents, anything, all we have to do is right click on that thing specific and then simply select. move to the trash, that's one way of doing things, another way to delete things, select it and press the key command delete and that will delete it once they've deleted something, they always go to the trash, which is on my part bottom right.
Next to it I see my garbage container and I just have to empty it again. I can just right click on it and select empty. However, I can also go in and look at my transparent and see what's there, so I'll click on it and here's my trash, it's very important to empty it, so in the top right corner just press empty and I also want to highlight that if you do Click on the top right corner, where the date is, you will see widgets and notifications. so let's just click there, we'll see all of this.
You can scroll down and can edit these widgets at any time. To edit them at the bottom you will see edit widgets. You can go ahead and click there. We're going to look at all of these widgets and at this point we can select any of them and delete any that we like, so let's say you don't want these stories. I can click on the top right corner and just get rid of that and let's say I want a bigger widget for my weather. I really want to look at my weather, so at the bottom I'm going to look at the weather down here.
I'm going to click there and here on my weather widgets. So I can have a small, medium or large. Grande will show me more information about it, so what I'm going to do is just add this to the top left. I'm going to click on it and it will be added right here. my widgets now to close this on the bottom right, I'm going to see done, just click done and I'm done with my widgets. Widgets are really great because you can take a quick look at what's important in your life. Basically, from there, we'll just click here to get rid of them, so it's in the top right corner of your quote, just to get rid of them now, let's say you're doing a conference and you don't want to receive them. all these notifications from different apps, including phone calls or anything, even text messages here on your Mac, well, we can mute your Mac from doing that, so again in the top right corner you'll see this in addition to Siri, so here is Siri and also.
Siri we see this, just click on it and you'll notice it appears so let me zoom in a little bit, look at this where it says do not disturb, click on it, you'll see this so you can set this to do not disturb. for an hour tonight always on maybe you don't want to receive notifications, sometimes they can be annoying or it's only until tomorrow so if you have something very long or maybe you're not sure how long you'll be We'll be in that meeting or you just want to this starts until tomorrow, just click there, we won't see any more notifications, obviously, if we change our mind, we can always tap this again to get rid of it and right now.
We will be receiving notifications again, so it's a very important thing to know now, especially now that we have a lot of online meetings, everyone is working from home or maybe even in school, you may not want to receive those notifications now. see wi-fi bluetooth airdrop airdrop airdrops very good, it works very well if you have iPhones, iPads, you can transfer things between your Mac and your iPhone just using this, so it's important to note that we also have here the keyboard brightness, the screen brightness and sound. Plus, you can always play music. I also want to show you that screen mirroring can only do this if you have something that supports screen mirroring, but anyway I have a separate video that talks about all of that, but it's good to note that there is something else.
Really important, obviously, is how to turn off your Mac, so in the top left corner we'll see the Apple logo, so this is the map logo. Click on it, you'll scroll down a little bit and you'll see shutdown, that's how Guys, shut down or restart your Mac so you don't have those options here. Sleep will simply put your Mac into sleep mode so they can access it later, maybe they'll use it after a few minutes so they just want to leave it. Rest for now, let it sleep and voila, it will just be in sleep mode.
However, if you want to turn it off, press here and it will automatically turn off in d seconds. Okay, if you want. turn it off right away just press power off it will turn off if they want to force shutdown that depends on what Mac they have they may have to hold down the power button for a few seconds and then it will just force shut down. By the way, with my new macbook airs macbook pros, their touch id is a real button, so they can press and hold it to turn it off and force it, but the wayThe normal way to turn it off is from up here and then.
By choosing to shut down as you get to know your Mac, you will find that everything is in the finder, so all your documents, everything you want to find is in the finder, here at the bottom left, you will see the finder as I mentioned. If you don't see it, you can always type it into the featured search; however, most of you will already see it down here, so we can tap on it and once you open it, you might see a screen like this on the side. You're going to see several options, so airdrop works like I mentioned before, if you have an iPhone, iPad or Touch or maybe another Mac, you can send things to each other, that's just to transfer files, images, anything you want, really recent, we'll take a look at your recent files, applications, that's where all your programs will be on the desktop, it's just our desktop and documents and downloads, so documents is usually where you want to organize all your documents, just drag and drop files in there, downloads, that's all that dies. download from the Internet, so what I'm going to show you now are applications, so let's click on applications, right here under applications, these are the applications that are installed on my Mac, so these are all the programs that I have installed on At the moment, that's not the only way you guys can find your apps, by the way, we can find your apps too.
Let me close this to close any of these windows. It's by pressing the x up here, if you want to minimize, you can do that. hit this to make that an option as well, so we'll go ahead and close this. We can also press the q command by the way to exit anything, so if you want to close that or actually close an app or a program on your Mac. press the q command that's essential, it's good to know, but I wanted to show you anyway another way you can access your programs, obviously there are quick ways to do that, but down here you'll also see the launch pad, so let's tap on the launch pad and here That's another way to access all your programs and take a look at them , we can also search for them, so if it is a specific program, maybe you have many, just click here and search for that program to get out of this, just click.
Click anywhere that is not a program and you will return here now to serve the web. We can use Safari, but there is also Google Chrome and other applications that we can use, so now I will show you how to download Google Chrome. It's something that everyone uses all the time, so now we're going to go straight to safari, here's safari down here again, if you don't see it, we can use featured search, so in the top right corner there's a featured search we can click right there and we'll be able to type safari once it appears we can just click on it and here safari, it'll close this at the top, you'll see your search bar and you'll just type google chrome and then we'll just press the key Intro, we'll look at this and here's the first thing.
I usually always tell them not to select the first things that are an ad, so it could be anything that it doesn't really have to be about. Google, but hey, it's Google, so they will put their thing first and not some ad from another company, so, for safety, you should always scroll down and select the second option, so you will see download and install Google. This is from google.com. exactly where you have to go to download anything from Google, like Google Chrome, and that's exactly what we're going to do, so we're just going to click on the first option and right here we'll see how to do more with Google Chrome, blah.
Blah, blah, and download Google Chrome for Mac OS x 10.11 or later, which is exactly what your Mac is, so we'll go ahead and download Chrome right now, so depending on which Mac you have, you'll download the Intel chip or the Apple chip. newest max chip if you just bought a mac it will have the apple chip they mean the m1 chip so if you have a mac that in the description states m1 as the newest max then it will be an apple chip or it will just be an Intel chip, you can also check it here on the top left, you will see the Apple logo.
Just click on it over this Mac and you'll see if it says Intel or maybe it just says Apple anyway once guys check which one you actually have just go ahead and select your second choice or your first choice in this case it's an m1 , so we'll click here, we'll go, we'll see this message. We'll go into Allow and one more thing will now download, as you know this will take some time to download. In fact, the download is now complete, but to configure everything correctly, we will return to the system preferences. System preferences that we will open. that above and we will make sure that everything we download can be downloaded without any problem.
To do that, we're going to go directly to our privacy, so that's down here, security, privacy, we'll see this icon, click on it and from here. If you have any problem downloading any app or it doesn't really matter what it is, it could be Google Chrome or installing anything from the internet that is not directly from Apple, then we have to make these changes, so we will continue with click to unlock so that it is At the bottom left we will click right there we will unlock this first we will continue we can use our password or our fingerprint depending on what you have, we are going to unlock this and from here what we have to choose is the second option so that the application store and the identified developers don't just have an app store so make sure they have the second option and if they have any problem with anything, downloading and installing them.
You'll see an additional message down here where you can click Allow, so keep that in mind for now, we're going to close this and since we've successfully downloaded Google Chrome, we can always go to the top right. In the corner we will see this arrow and we will see Show downloads. Here is our dmg file. Generally Mac programs will be dot dmg, not like Windows files which are dot exe or any other. Another way to look at this is to just go. to your downloads, so I'm going to show you that too, if you open the finder once again, we can always click on downloads once the finder opens and we will see our downloads right here, there are several views to see your files.
So I really don't like this first look. I like to see my icons, so I'm going to go ahead and click on this and this is the difference, so we'll see an icon instead of a list, which is this option. So I like things a little more visual and that's why I do that, but it depends on what you guys like anyway, here's my dmg file. I'm going to click on it. I'll double click on it to open it. My Google Chrome will open. dmg and basically with any application available to install it, just drag it to the applications folder, so here it is, we are supposed to see this and now what it tells us is to drag this, so we will click on We will hold it, it we'll drag on top of our applications folder, but yes, this is our applications folder, what we're doing now, we're transferring it over there and that's it, it's that easy. go ahead and close this, we'll tap here and then we'll go back to our apps and from here we'll see Google Chrome.
It's here, so we can double click on it and Let's open Google Chrome from here, we just need to press Open and we shouldn't have any problems again. If you have any problems, I showed you that in the system preferences you can change some things, but let's go anyway. to start google chrome for now before you start google chrome make sure you read this on google chrome is your default browser you might want I don't want that for me not really although I like google chrome I don't want it to be my default browser So every time When I click on a link, I don't want Google Chrome to open.
I like Safari and we also have this option, which is to improve Google Chrome now that I like it. I like to send that information about anything that goes wrong. to Google, so let's go ahead and start Google Chrome and here we go right now, we have some notifications to close the notifications because they can be annoying. You can tap on the left side and we'll see this. tap on it, tap on it, so you can close the notifications that just popped up going back to Google Chrome here we have it and we can start by just starting, we can log in with our Google or at the top you can just type. open google.com for example to search for anything we can go ahead press return key and we will search for those videos or information about any website here on Google so that's it you guys can search and use Google Chrome here same. on your Mac now I mentioned about properly closing windows and programs at this point, this is something that is not very good about Mac, but on the top left you will see this on the right and I told you that to close any window you should do it.
I need to do that, yes and no, for programs like Google Chrome, if you do that, it's not really closed, so I'm going to tap right there, I'm going to tap here, I'm going to close everything and you might notice that you'll see at the bottom. Google Chrome with this point below, same goes for Safari here. I don't really have any other apps open, so even though I technically close them, they're not really close, they're kind of minimized, so they actually close. For those apps we have to press the q command or just quit them, so I'm going to open Google Chrome again, so here's Google Chrome and to properly close an app like Google Chrome when programming like I mentioned before, you would do the q command. to close it and exit or you can always tap up here, you'll see Chrome, for example, or whatever program it is, so just tap on it and if you scroll down you'll see exit so you can Exit Google Chrome or exit any app or again, you can always press the q command on your keyboard, so I'm going to do that, and as you might notice, if I look down again, I won't see that dot below.
This is because it's no longer open, it's completely closed, which is how you completely close any application program here on your Mac. At this point, since we're done installing Google Chrome, we can always right click here and eject Google Chrome. just eject the installer that's all it's like deleting it but we won't delete the app itself so don't worry about that guys just make sure you eject it it may take a while like now they usually don't . The first time it took me so long, but we're done with it anyway. Another thing that's really useful to know about your Mac is that you can customize so many things in so many keys when it comes down to it, so for example, maybe you can have a smaller macbook pro macbook air and you want more space on your screen and You don't want to spit this out all the time because you might not need to see it all the time, every icon that you have down here, well, there's a way around that, so now we're going to go into system preferences again.
If you don't see the system prefaces down here, you can always search for them up here in your featured search, so what we want to search for is our third option up here, document. in the menu bar just tap on it and this is something that most people use, but it's not necessary if you don't want to automatically hide and show the dock, so down here we can go ahead and hide that dock if we don't want it, so let's go ahead and click on there, what does that do? I'm going to click and I'm going to click there so you can see what happens, see it disappear, that's what it does, so let's say I made it hide what happens okay, if I scroll down, it'll just appear, so that is what I'm doing, as long as I don't touch that then it will just disappear, however if I mouse down to the bottom.
I'm going to see everything I want now, something else that's cool that I like to turn on is up here, magnification, so I'm going to put a check mark right there and what it does is this, so now as I scroll over to down goes to magnify everything now in my case I think it's a little bit too big but some people might like that we can adjust it so I can adjust to the middle so now if we go down they just go up a little bit more like this that Kind of highlights what you're scrolling, I'll go over a little bit more and there we go, so now I'm highlighting what I'm going to select.
This is pretty useful again if you have a 13 inch, uh, it's pretty good. that this will highlight what you're scrolling through, so it's a quick tip for you to personalize and personalize your Mac even more, so for now we're going to close this out. Now I'm just going to show you what's down here and what Each of these is a launchpad that already shows you all your apps so far, just a web browser where you can use the same as Google Chrome and here we have messages, so These are only messages if you have an iPhone, soexample. you can plug it in and you'll see your text messages here too so if someone on android sent you a message you'll also see it here if you don't have anything like that you don't have an iPhone then you're just You'll see imessage there which means you'll only see messages from other people using an Apple device, since imessage only uses your data or your wifi anyway, moving on to Facetime, well we've all seen what Facetime is. it's just that you're calling someone else and by the way you can do audio facetime if you really don't want to show your camera so you can do that too.
You guys can also use Siri to make those facetime or even calls. text so Siri is at the top right here so you can click on it and just go ahead and use Siri to make any phone calls or something like that, you can tell Siri to do that, you can tell Tier to do a lot things, even telling you the weather and things like that anyway, coming back here, we'll go to the mail, we can also go set it up. Upstairs, uh, it's not really necessary, you can always access your mail through Safari or Google Chrome.
Let's just see if you have Hotmail. Go to your Hotmail email through Google Chrome or Safari. It doesn't really matter, but yes, you set it. upload your email right here to go along with your hotmail or gmail or whatever so they can have everything there anyway, the maps would be like google maps, but it's on google maps, it's maps created by apple and photos, there It's where you can store everything. your photos and they usually end up there anyway, if you have an iPhone you'll see that a bunch of your photos are already there, moving to the calendar, well it's just a standard contacts calendar, you can see all your contacts from there if you have any step to reminders, that's where you open, you write things down just to remind you again.
I like to use Siri for everything, so you can tell Siri to remind you of a specific date and that's where the notepad will be added. Well, that's where they can write any notes they want, so I actually use notes a lot and keep everything in there, from videos that I need to make or any additional notes from the Apple TV app which I'll get to later because it's just an app, it is not. Apple TV Plus and I'll show you that in just a second the musical symbiotes can watch it later and with the podcast again, just go in and watch if you like some of the news, there's free stuff and your own soul is paid. things you can't pay for a subscription or you can look for free news there too in your app store, that's where you'll download a lot of your apps, but not all of them, like I just showed you before, you can always go. and search for specific apps that you want, like Google Chrome from within Safari, you can download them and you wouldn't download them from the app store, for example, but there are a ton of apps in there that you might want to move into system preferences, which I already told you.
I showed and until here we will see your trash, which is always important to empty it now before continuing with anything. I want to move on to system preferences again and that's because I want to show you something that I don't have a video that shows specific details on how to set up an external hard drive with your Mac, but I think it's the best way to have a backup of your documents and everything you are going to transfer to your Mac, so do it. Make sure you turn on the time machine down here that uses an external hard drive.
Don't activate it if you don't have an external hard drive, there's no point, but if you have a use for Time Machine, I have a separate full video that shows you how to set up Time Machine, so be sure to check it out if you're interested in back up your files if they are important to you or yes, you can use Google Drive or anything else similar to keep your files online and safe for now we are done, I hope you have fun with your Mac, you will get very used to it quick, trust me, as long as you watch and follow these steps you should be fine anyway, that would be it for this video, if you have any questions please comment.
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