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Quick Start Guide
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Welcome to your new MacBook Air. Let us show you around. This guide shows you what’s on your Mac, helps you set it up, and gets you up and running with tips for the apps you’ll use every day. Your battery is charged and ready to go, so you can start using your Mac right out of the box. When you do recharge the battery, you’ll know it’s fully charged when the orange light on your power connector turns green. Hello. Quick Start Guide
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SDXC USB 3 Thunderbolt Transfer photos from your Charge devices, connect Connect external displays camera’s memory card external storage, and more and high-performance devices MagSafe 2 Magnetically attach the power cord FaceTime HD camera Make video calls, capture HD video, and take snapshots To learn more about ports and connectors, go to support.apple.com/kb/HT2494.
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AC plug AC power Power adapter cord Power button MagSafe 2 power connector Multi-Touch trackpad To learn more about the battery, go to www.apple.com/batteries.
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Let’s get started Press the power button to start up your MacBook Air, and Setup Assistant guides you through a few simple steps to get you up and running quickly. It walks you through connecting to your Wi-Fi network and creating a user account for your Mac. And it can even transfer your documents, email, photos, music, and movies to your new Mac from another Mac or PC. You can sign in with your Apple ID in Setup Assistant. This automatically sets up your account in the Mac App Store and
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Control your Mac with Multi-Touch gestures You can do a lot of things on your MacBook Air using simple gestures on the trackpad. Here are some of the most popular ones. Click Secondary click (right click) Press down anywhere on the trackpad Click with two fingers to open shortcut to click. Or, with Tap to Click enabled, menus. Or, with Tap to Click enabled, tap simply tap the surface. two fingers anywhere. Two-finger scroll Swipe to navigate Brush two fingers along the trackpad Swipe wi
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Get to know your desktop The desktop is where you can find everything and do anything on your Mac. The Dock at the bottom of the screen is a handy place to keep the apps you use most. It’s also where you can open System Preferences, which lets you customize your desktop and other settings on your Mac. Click the Finder icon to quickly get to all your files and folders. The menu bar at the top has lots of useful information about your Mac. To check the status of your wireless Internet conn
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Keep your devices working together with iCloud iCloud lets you access your music, photos, calendars, contacts, documents, and more from your Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and even your PC. And it keeps everything up to date automatically. Buy a song on one device, and it’s instantly available on all your other devices. Create a new Pages document on your Mac, and you can make edits with your iPad on the go. Take a photo with your iPhone, and it automatically appears in iPhoto on your Ma
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Quickly find the app you want Your Mac comes with great apps you can use to make the most of your photos, create documents, browse the web, manage your schedule, and more. Launchpad is where you can easily find all the apps on your Mac. Click the Launchpad icon in the Dock to see a full-screen display of all your apps. Arrange apps any way you want, group them in folders, or delete them from your Mac. When you download an app from the Mac App Store, it automatically appears in Launchpad.
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An important note Please read this document and the safety information in the Important Product Information Guide carefully before you first use your computer. Learn more You can find more information, watch demos, and learn even more about MacBook Air features at www.apple.com/macbookair. Help You can often find answers to your questions, as well as instructions and troubleshooting information, in Help Center. Click the Finder icon, click Help in the menu bar, and choose Help Center. You
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Safari Safari is the best way to surf the check out Shared Links for pages web on your Mac. Start by typing a posted by people you follow on search term or web address in the Twitter and LinkedIn. And Safari Smart Search field—it knows the works with iCloud to keep your difference and will send you to the bookmarks, Reading List, and right place. You can save pages to website passwords up to date your Reading List to read later, and across all your devices. Top Sites Share Sidebar Click to
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Mail Mail lets you manage all your Mail. You can also use Mail for the email accounts from a single, free iCloud.com email account ad-free inbox, even when you’re you get with iCloud. The first time not connected to the Internet. It you open Mail, Setup Assistant works with popular email services helps you get started. like Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, and AOL One-stop email Conversation view Search View all your accounts in See all the email Quickly narrow search Mail for one-click access.
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Calendar Keep track of your busy schedule has responded. Add a location to with Calendar. You can create an event, and Calendar will include separate calendars—one for home, a map, calculate travel time, and another for school, and a third for even display the weather forecast. work. See all your calendars in a Use iCloud to automatically update single window, or choose to see calendars on all your devices just the ones you want. Create or share calendars with other and send invitati
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Messages Just log in with your Apple ID, and pick it up on another. And if you you can send unlimited messages, want to talk to someone face to including text, photos, videos, face, you can start a video call* and more, to your friends on a Mac, just by clicking the FaceTime icon iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. With in the top-right corner of the iMessage, you can even start a Messages window. conversation on one device and Replies in progress Delivery receipts FaceTime Three dots mean y
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Maps Explore new destinations and get and Maps shows you phone directions on your Mac with Maps. numbers, photos, and even Yelp View locations using standard reviews. Once you find your or satellite imagery, or use Flyover destination, Maps provides to soar through select cities in point-to-point directions that photorealistic 3D. You can look you can send to your iPhone for up information for local points of turn-by-turn voice navigation. interest like restaurants and hotels, Bookmar
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iBooks iBooks is a novel way to download pages with a swipe or a click. It’s and read books. It includes the easy to add notes and bookmarks, iBooks Store, where you can and even highlight passages. download the latest best-selling Books purchased from the iBooks books or your favorite classics. Store are available on your Mac Click a book to open it. Flip through and iOS devices. iBooks Store Notes Panel Search Books downloaded View and edit all your Quickly search through from the iBo
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iTunes iTunes for Mac makes it easy where you can find new favorites to enjoy your favorite music, and download them with a click. movies, TV shows, and more. In addition, iTunes includes iTunes iTunes includes the iTunes Store, Radio, a new way to discover music. Your library iTunes Radio iTunes Store View your music, Choose from hundreds of Discover and buy movies, TV shows, stations or start a new one from new music, movies, podcasts, and more. your favorite artist or song. and mor
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iPhoto, iMovie, and GarageBand iPhoto, iMovie, and GarageBand give books, cards, and calendars. iMovie you amazing ways to create and lets you turn your home videos into share your photos, movies, and epic movie trailers. And GarageBand music. iPhoto helps you organize has everything you need to learn your library by Faces, Places, and to play an instrument, write music, Events, and create gorgeous photo or record a song. Events Projects Share Simply move your cursor Easily create and ord
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Pages, Numbers, and Keynote Create stunning documents, with the new context-sensitive spreadsheets, and presentations on Format Panel. You can even open your Mac. Beautiful templates give and edit Microsoft Office files. And you a great head start—simply add you can quickly and easily share your own words and photos. And a link to your work via Mail or customizing everything is a snap Messages, right from your toolbar. Add graphics and more Share Format Panel Create media-rich Easily shar
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Mac App Store The Mac App Store is the best way for your personal use and even to find and download apps for download them again. The Mac your Mac, from games and social App Store lets you know when networking to productivity apps and app and OS X updates are available, more. In one step, new apps install and can even update your apps and appear in Launchpad. You can automatically. Open the Mac App install apps on every Mac authorized Store by clicking its icon in the Dock. Discover ne
