Exploring Apple Mac

Monterey Edition: The Illustrated, Practical Guide to Using MacOS

Kevin Wilson

• Publisher: Elluminet Press
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781913151645
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Operating Systems
• Index: Computer Science

We've all been there before, glaring at a computer screen with no idea what to do - don't worry Exploring Apple Mac is here to help. Written by best-selling technology author, lecturer, and computer trainer Kevin Wilson, Exploring Apple Mac is packed with easy-to-follow instructions, photos, illustrations, helpful tips, and video demos.

Updated to cover the Monterey release of MacOS, Exploring Apple Mac will help you understand the fundamentals of your Mac. You'll learn how to:

Upgrade your Mac to Monterey and explore new features

Find your way around the desktop, dock, finder, and launchpad in MacOS Monterey

Master touch gestures, trackpads and the magic mouse to get around your Mac

Use Notification Centre, Handoff, Spaces, Control Center, Universal Control, and Universal Clipboard

Organising files and folders in Finder

Browse the web with the Safari Web Browser safely and efficiently in MacOS Monterey

Keep in touch with friends and family using email, iMessage, and FaceTime video chat

Set important appointments with Calendar in MacOS Monterey

Keep the people you correspond with in the Contacts app

Set yourself reminders and 'to-do' lists

Check the weather

Record voice memos

Download countless apps from the App Store in MacOS Monterey

Catch up with your favourite podcasts and the latest news

Read ebooks on MacOS Monterey

Find your way around with the Maps App, get directions, create guides, explore places in 3D, and use the new interactive globe

Stream music with Apple Music, buy tracks & albums from iTunes Store

Stream TV programs & movies with the Apple TV App

Getting started with Pages, Keynote and Numbers on your Mac

Using iCloud storage on your Mac

Use time machine to back up your data

Get to know Siri in MacOS

Use the photos app to store and enhance your photos

Create slideshows, photo albums and use iMovie to edit your home movies and more...

Finally, system updates and maintenance tips to help you keep your Mac running smoothly complete this invaluable user guide. You'll want to keep this edition handy as you make your way around the new OS.

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M1 Chip (Apple Silicon)

In recent years, Apple have developed their own processor chip for the Mac called the M1, which has started the transition away form Intel Chips.

The M1 chip combines the CPU, Graphics Processor (or GPU), memory (or RAM), SSD drive controller, and a neural engine which is a component designed to use machine learning and artificial intelligence for tasks such identifying objects in photos, or applying an automatic filter to a picture, analysing videos, voice recognition, and so on.

The M1 also includes a thunderbolt controller with USB 4 support, and a few other minor components. All these components are integrated onto a single chip, known as a system on a chip (SOC), and is why the M1 is much faster and more efficient than the Intel chips.

Higher end machines such as the new Macbook Pros feature the M1 Pro and M1 Max. These are similar to the M1 but offer much greater performance and are aimed creative professionals and power users. Here are the specs for the three chips currently available.

What about apps? Apps are written with a specific hardware in mind. Macs with Intel chips use the x64 instruction set, while Macs with the M1 chip use the ARM instruction set - they don’t speak the same language. To solve this problem and ease the transition, Apple designed Rosetta 2, which is a translator that converts apps built for Intel chips, so they will run on Macs with the M1 Chip. This process happens in the background.

You might also come across some other technical terms such as, native apps. These are apps written specifically for the chip they are running on - so M1 native apps are written specifically for the M1 Mac. Universal apps are apps designed to run on both Intel and M1 Macs. Emulation is a process where an app written for an Intel Mac r...

Table of contents

• What’s New?
• Available Macs
• M1 Chip (Apple Silicon)