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Chapter 1
IN THIS CHAPTER
Taking a tour of your Mac's ports and other hardware
Getting the feel of your Mac's mouse or trackpad
Learning the lay of the keyboard land
Starting your Mac
Sleeping, shutting down, and restarting your Mac
The world is divided into two types of people: Those who look before they leap and those who take the plunge without a second thought (or often even a first, for that matter). In the computer world, people who prefer not to look before leaping will fire up their new machine and start banging away: clicking this, pressing that, turning this dial, and twiddling that knob. It's all liberating, I suppose, but for those of us who prefer to give things a good look before leaping, it seems like madness and a recipe for trouble.
This chapter (and the rest of the chapters here in Book 1) is dedicated to members of the look-before-you-leap camp. Sure, it takes a bit more time than just diving in and seeing what happens, but the payoff is a solid grounding in Mac basics that will serve you well throughout your long and illustrious Mac career.
In this chapter, you explore your Mac to get fully acquainted with your new computer. You tour your Mac's hardware doodads, and then you see how to start the machine. From there, you take a close look at controlling your Mac with a mouse or trackpad, and learn the ins and outs of your Mac keyboard. The chapter closes with the details of putting your Mac to sleep, shutting down your Mac, and restarting your Mac.
When you check in to a high-class hotel, the person who carries up your luggage usually gives you a brief tour of your room's amenities. Now, I'm not saying this book is the equivalent of a fancy-schmancy hotel, but I'd like to offer you the same service: a tour of your Mac's amenities.
One problem, though: There are so many different types of Macs that I have no way of knowing what model you have, nor do I have the space to go through every model that's out there. That's not a deal-breaker, however, because I can give you a general tour that will be enough to get you acquainted with your Mac's hardware features. (You can think of the rest of the book as a tour of your Mac's software features.)
In computing lingo, a port is a connection point on a computer, meaning that you use it to connect something to the machine. So, when I talk about the features of your Mac, what I'm mostly talking about are the various ports you use to attach other devices to your Mac.
The good news about ports is that things are much simpler now than they were even just a few years ago, particularly in the Mac universe. In the old days, something could be connected to your computer in a dizzyingly large number of ways. Now, connections to current and recent Mac models come in just two main flavors: Thunderbolt and HDMI.
Most Macs come with two or four Thunderbolt ports, which are usually marked with a lightning bolt icon, as shown in Figure 1-1.
FIGURE 1-1: Thunderbolt ports and cable.
Thunderbolt ports are the main reason why connecting devices to your Mac is much simpler than it used to be. Why? Because Thunderbolt ports are compatible with several different device types:
Thunderbolt devices: External monitors, TVs, or external hard drives that also have Thunderbolt ports. These devices can connect to your Mac directly by using a Thunderbolt cable such as the one shown in Figure 1-1, right.
Thunderbolt devices support daisy-chaining, which means you connect Thunderbolt device A to your Mac, Thunderbolt device B to device A, Thunderbolt device C to device B, and so on. You can daisy-chain up to six devices in this way. Sweet!
Available on the Mac Studio, Mac Pro, Mac mini, and MacBook Pro, the HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) port (see Figure 1-3, left) is used to connect devices such as external monitors, TVs, and cameras that also have an HDMI port. To make the connection, you use an HDMI cable such as the one shown in Figure 1-3, right.
FIGURE 1-2: USB-C connectors and a USB cable.
FIGURE 1-3: An HDMI port and a typical HDMI cable.
What if you have an iMac, MacBook Air, or other Mac that doesn't come with an HDMI port? You can still connect HDMI devices to your Mac, but you'll need a Thunderbolt-to-HDMI adaptor (a device that has a Thunderbolt connector on one end and an HDMI port on the other). A USB-C-to-HDMI adaptor will also get the job done.
Before you can connect anything to your Mac, you need to know where to find your Mac's ports:
Figure 1-4 points out the relevant ports and buttons on the back of a Mac Studio. Most Macs come with some combination of these features.
FIGURE 1-4: The ports and buttons that festoon the back of a Mac Studio.
Note in Figure 1-4 that the Mac Studio, like most Macs, comes with a few other features besides the Thunderbolt and HDMI ports:
First off, let me note that you actually have two ways to connect a device to your Mac:
When it comes to making a connection with a cable, it's worth noting that all the ports on your Mac have a particular size and shape that's unique to each type of connection. Fortunately for you, the jack on the corresponding cable that plugs into each type of port has the same size and shape. For example, look at the HDMI port and HDMI cable, shown earlier in Figure 1-3. As you can see, the shape of the port mirrors the shape of both cable connectors. This means two things for you:
With these two pieces of good news in mind, connecting anything to your Mac involves the following general steps:
Connect the other end of the cable to the compatible port on the device.
When your Mac recognizes that a new device is attempting to connect, you see the Allow Accessory to Connect? dialog shown in...
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