4 basic tips for using MacBook Air

MacBook Air can be said to be a leader in laptops: excellent performance, long battery life while maintaining a light body, slim shape, which almost satisfies all the requirements of notebooks. If you are also a MacBook Air user, you may want to make your MacBook Air more usable by changing the settings of the MacBook Air as described below.

If you switch from another platform to MacBook Air or just replace your old version of MacBook Air, you'll find that the new MacBook Air has high-resolution, display-good displays, longer battery life and optimized SSD drives compared to previous laptops. These excellent genes make MacBook air a better base than any other laptop (or hyper-polar), and with the right configuration, it's sure to let your MacBook Air kill other laptops in seconds.

　　1. Calibrate the screen color according to the display panel type

MacBook Air has a great display compared to the average laptop in the market, and if you compare two MacBook Air, you may find subtle differences in the display. The reason is that Apple typically buys LCD panels from LG and Samsung's two suppliers, while the MacBook Air's default color configuration shows better performance under Samsung's LCD panel. This does not mean that LG is inferior in quality to the LCD panels produced by Samsung, and that by modifying the screen color configuration, they will have the same excellent display effect. There is no way to get information about the manufacturer of the LCD panel in OS x's system setup, but we can find it by looking at the system information from the terminal. Locate the terminal in the/Applications/Utilities, and then paste the following command into the terminal to execute:

ioreg-lw0 | grep Iodisplayedid | Sed "/[^<]*

If you find a string that starts with "LP" in the terminal output, your display panel is produced by LG. At this point you should modify the display settings to achieve the best display effect.

Tap the Apple menu in the upper-left corner of the screen, select "System Preferences", then click "Display" Inside

Click "Color", "Calibrate" and select "Expert mode" to change the configuration to achieve the best display effect.

The effect of calibrating the screen is not displayed on the screen, because the screen does not show a different effect with the display configuration, you need to gradually adjust the parameters and then compare the differences (if you do not like these tedious steps, you can also use "Air dedicated LG Panel profile"). Generally calibrated displays have a better display in terms of brightness and contrast.

A little trick about calibrating the display is that in a light and dark environment, a better display is achieved by calibrating the monitor after the brightness is increased. In "Expert Mode", it is generally possible to complete the calibration operation with one minute or two.

　　2: Maximize app, Auto Hide Dock

Now the application function is more and more powerful, the size of the screen is more and more high, a lot of applications on the 13-inch screen is not passable, on the 11-inch air is shackled. To make the most of every pixel on your monitor, most apps support full-screen functionality, and click the Full Screen button in the top right corner of the app (you can also set a shortcut for this) to maximize the application, allowing the window to fill the entire screen.

Once the app is maximized, the dock bar will still appear at the bottom of the screen, and hiding it can also save a portion of the screen space. Use the shortcut key command+option+d to set the dock to auto-hide; When you need to display the dock, just place the mouse pointer at the bottom of the screen and the dock will automatically appear. In System Preferences, there are options to set the behavior of the dock, which you can explore further.

　　3: Extended battery life

Thanks to OS X's excellent power management, MacBook Air is in the default power management mode, with battery life exceeding most laptops. If you want your MacBook Air to work longer without an external power supply, here are two things to do:

Reduce the screen brightness. With the development of processor and hard disk technology, the display becomes one of the most power-hungry parts of MacBook Air. Lower the screen brightness, can significantly reduce the power consumption, prolong battery life

Close applications that you do not need. Applications will boot up with air, shutting down unwanted applications can also reduce power consumption

If you often go out and forget to put on the power, you should try to do everything possible to prolong the battery life: adjust the screen brightness to 50% or less, close all running applications (you can use this to close all application scripts), and only start the application that you want to work with. Close them immediately after the work is done. Another effective way to extend battery life is to upgrade to the latest OS X Mavericks: It adds some battery improvements that will allow your air to work longer.

　　4: Storage of multimedia files and system backups using external storage devices

The only thing that makes the MacBook air so much less likely is that it uses SSDs instead of a mechanical hard drive, which reduces the volume of hard drives. As previously used, there is often a warning that there is not enough disk space left. Fortunately, most of the external storage devices are now cheap, and the air is equipped with interfaces that can support multiple storage devices.

13-inch air users can purchase a large-capacity SD card to expand the system storage space, which can be installed in the air inside the reader, and the price is very cheap. 11-inch Air users are less fortunate because their air does not have a built-in card reader, but can still use a USB stick to add extra storage space. Do not worry about the use of USB flash drive will be inconvenient, because now the U disk is very small, usually you do not need to take them off the computer.

Another benefit of mass storage is that you can divide it into two zones: one for storing multimedia files and the other for time capsule backups. This allows you to use a peripheral to support both storage and backup, and you can carry it with you, without having to go to your home or office to do so.

4 basic tips for using MacBook Air