5. About this Mac
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Three things need to play together nicely. These are 1 Hardware (your MacBook) - 2 Operating System (see below) - 3 Applications (ie iTunes, Photo, Contacts, Photoshop, Word, Excel, etc) About Mac systems; Currently using - OS 10.13. - High Sierra - 30 Sept 2017 New features in High Sierra Previous - OS 10.12.6 - Sierra - 30 Sept 2015 OS 10.11.5 - El Capitan - 30 Sept 2015 OS 10.10.3 - Yosemite - released Oct 2014 OS 10.9.5 – Mavericks - OS 10.8 - etc - the Cat OSs The Next OS - 10.14 - - ??? Sept/Oct/Nov 2018?? 5. About this Mac - Explore - note the tabs for Overview, Displays, etc 6. Software Update and App Store _ From About this Mac _ Check regularly - (but don't try to update during the session!) _ Personally I tend to wait before upgrading to a new system. Wait for 10.X.1 Rare for there to be any bugs but happy to let others worry about them 7. Getting help - Help Menu - Apple site - https://www.apple.com/support/mac/ - Youtube https://www.apple.com/au/support/ Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twf70Tl7piY 8. Disk Utility To test and repair disks - I tend to run this every few weeks or if there seems to be a problem https://support.apple.com/kb/PH5836?locale=en_US&viewlocale=en_US Other things you can do with Disk Utility https://support.apple.com/kb/PH5831?viewlocale=en_AU&locale=en_AU |
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