Getting Started with MacBook

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Before the first use of the MAC, need to change some of the original thinking, should not use the Windows thinking habits to use Mac,mac will save the system maintenance, clean up antivirus, upgrade drive and other operations time, so we can focus on doing really important things, this article will detail the knowledge of the MacBook Introduction

Keys

Since the MacBook simplifies the keyboard and cancels many of the keys in the standard keyboard, the following are common supplemental keys

"Delete" FN + backspace
"Home" FN + LEFT arrow
"End" FN + RIGHT Arrow
"PageUp" FN + up Arrow
"PageDown" FN + DOWN arrow

Battery use

Existing notebook, mobile phone, or lithium battery composed of power system will be equipped with battery protection Board, overcharge Protection is one of the basic functions, full of it will disconnect the charging circuit; almost all of the above-mentioned electrical charges and their own electricity are dual circuit, that is, the electric appliance is directly using the mains, will not use the battery Lithium-ion batteries have no memory effect, and a complete charge and discharge is recorded as a cycle-time use.

Macbookair with lithium-ion battery, in lithium battery life is short, about 500 times. So, if you do not always plug in the power, that is to say that repeated use of batteries, will find a year after the battery is not as big as before, and has been plugged in the mains, at least not overcharge

Of course, the lithium battery at high temperature full power will affect the life, where the high temperature refers to 55 degrees Celsius above the temperature, the current data shows a loss of one months 1-2%

Why do you always use the mains, from the battery, a year after the capacity is still reduced? One is the aging of the battery itself over time, the second is the battery and self-discharge, the third is believed to use MacOS generally will not shut down the computer, but the cover sleep, which is also power consumption, which affects the battery life

Apple official statement should do a deep discharge every month, not to say that to maintain the battery, lithium batteries do not have memory effect, is not required to be placed on a regular basis. But the power system to calibrate the battery capacity, need to do periodic cycle to calibrate

Summary below, usually plug in the use of power, do not forget to do a deep discharge every month, for calibrating the battery capacity

Touch pad

The MacBook's touchpad is powerful and uses a good touchpad, which can greatly improve productivity and can be used without a mouse

Tap: Left click Effect

Double-pointing press: Right click Effect

Double finger tap two: Smart Zoom

Two-finger scrolling: wheel effect

Two fingers open or pinch: zoom effect

Two-finger left sweep or right sweep: forward or backward

Two fingers swipe left from the right edge: Notification Center

Three-finger drag: (Enable drag on the mouse and touch version-with the accessibility feature, System Preferences)

Four-finger left sweep or right sweep: swipe between apps across the screen

Fingers Open or pinch: Show desktop

Dispatch Center

1. Close the instrument panel

Instrument panel, Scheduling center, System Preferences

2. Open the Dispatch center

Swipe up with four fingers, or use the shortcut command + UP ARROW

3. Display Desktop

Shortcut key fn + F11

4, when the page is enlarged to full screen, the default can use four refers to the left or right slide to bring up the current application of the page

Shortcut keys

"Shortcut Keys"

CONTROL + COMMAND + 3 Save the screen picture as a file

CONTROL + COMMAND + 4 save a picture of the selected area as a file

CONTROL + COMMAND + 6 Save the picture of the touch bar as a file

The Window shortcut key

Command + N New window

COMMAND + Q Close Program

Command + H hides the front window of the app

Command + M minimization

"Browser Shortcuts"

Command + T new tab page

COMMAND + W Close tab

Command + OPTION + left or right arrow before a label or after a label

Command + OPTION + I turn the console on or off

Command + R Refresh

Software Settings

"Software Installation"

1, download the software to the Mac after double-click Run, this time you will see the desktop generated a new hard disk icon

2, also pop up a new installation window, if the window does not appear, you can double-click the hard disk icon. All you have to do is drag the software icon to the folder icon next to it.

3, after the installation is best to open the Finder, on the left to find the newly generated hard disk, click the next triangle, so that is the hard drive ejected

"Software Uninstall"

Open the Finder, click "Apps" on the left, then drag the software directly into the trash, even if you uninstalled the

Common functions

"Split Screen"

1. When you press and hold the full-screen button in the upper-left corner, the window shrinks and you can drag it to the side of the screen

2. Release the button, then click another window to start using the two windows side-by

"UTF8"

When you open the TXT file, you are prompted not to open the document "***.txt". Text Encoding "Unicode (UTF-8)" does not apply

To solve the above problem, the following steps are required:

1, open the Mac with the text editor Textedit.app, search Textedit.app after open can

2, open the text editing program preferences, switch to the "Open and save" option, in "Plain text file encoding" set "Open File" value is "Chinese (GB-18030)"

3. Re-open the text file just now, you can

"Activity Monitor"

There is a task manager in Windows that can be used to view the state and end process of a process that is running natively

Activity Monitor in your Mac has almost the same function, and you can quickly start activity monitor by searching for activity in spotlight

Getting started with MacBook