- [Host] If you're watching this video,
congratulations on your new Mac.
You definitely are not going to regret your purchase.
And in this video, I'm going to show you how to set it up
and also show you how to get started
with the Mac and Mac OS.
I've been using Macs for about 10 years
and a couple of weeks ago,
I bought literally every single new Mac
that Apple released just to test them all out.
So I have a pretty good understanding of the Mac ecosystem.
Anyway, without further ado, let's un-box my Mac
and I'll show you how to set it up.
Okay. So here we have a brand new 2020 M1 MacBook Air.
So first things first is obviously,
we're going to take it out of the packaging.
Now, the first thing we want to do
is just want to take everything out of the box
and just make sure it's all there.
So, obviously you have the MacBook.
You'll also have a USB-C to USB-C charging cable.
This is how you can actually charge the Mac.
You'll get a little instruction manual
with some stickers and stuff inside.
And depending on which model Mac you get,
you'll also get a power brick.
In this case, it's the MacBook Air,
which is the smaller charger.
If it was a MacBook Pro,
you'd have the bigger, 60-watt charger.
And with this particular charger,
it does come wrapped in a protective plastic.
And if you take that off,
you can actually change the head on this.
So if you're traveling internationally,
you can swap out this plug with a different country's one,
and you just snap it back on and you're good to go.
And obviously the USB-C cable plugs into this
which then goes into your Mac.
Now, the first thing you want to do with the Mac
is obviously take it out of the protective cover,
and you just want to double check
and just make sure that it looks brand new.
So you want to look at the screws to see there's no scratches,
or no scratches on the case.
No dents or marks or scratches anywhere.
The Apple logo should be nice and shiny.
'Cause you obviously want to do this,
first of all, because you want to make sure
that you don't get a Mac that's been used
or has been opened.
99.99% of the time, it's going to be a brand new Mac
with absolutely no issues,
but it always pays just to double check,
because if it does look like it's been damaged
or it's been used before, just return it straight away.
And the next thing you're going to do
is you're just going to open up the lid of the Mac.
You'll see it does have a protective cover there
over the screen.
And as soon as you do lift up the screen,
it's going to turn on and you'll see the Apple logo.
So we'll just peel off this little piece of paper.
And what we'll do now is we'll switch views,
so you can actually see what I'm doing on the screen.
Now, when you first open up the Mac,
this is the screen that you're going to get.
So obviously select whatever language you want to use.
And then we click the little button down
in the corner here.
And then again, select your country.
So I am in Australia.
So I will select that,
and I'll hit continue.
Now, if you want to enable
any kind of accessibility features, you can do that here.
So say for example, if you have issues with your vision
or your motor function or your hearing,
you can come in here and set up features
that will make the Mac easier for you to use,
but I don't need this,
so I'm going to click not now.
And you can actually come back
and change this later on in the settings,
so it's not a big deal.
Now WIFI network.
Obviously select a network and connect to it.
Enter the password for that network as well.
If you're struggling to find the password,
generally it's actually on the back
of the router you're using,
or it'll be written somewhere, from the router.
Especially if you've gotten it from your internet provider.
Now this is just a quick disclaimer
telling you what this particular icon means.
It's essentially the data and privacy icon,
and it only appears when an Apple feature
asks to use your personal information.
Now, if you guys didn't already know,
Apple is actually pretty good with privacy.
So it's actually going to give you quite a few options
and control over what you do,
and what you don't want to share.
So we'll just click continue to this.
You don't need to do anything.
Now, migration assistant is a really cool feature.
And what it lets you do
is it lets you, as the name suggests,
migrate information from another computer.
So if you've been using a Mac before this,
you can migrate it over WIFI or from a time machine disk
or if you're actually using a Windows PC,
you can do the same thing.
And it's a really easy way to actually import
all of your files, such as Word documents,
or photos or videos.
And if you're coming from a Mac,
it will also do your programs and settings.
But if it's a Windows PC, it's only going to do your data.
So things like photos, Word documents, pictures,
and that kind of thing.
Now I'm setting this up as a brand new Mac.
I'm not putting anything on it at the moment.
So I'm actually going to come down here
and I'm going to select not now.
Now Apple ID, if you don't already have one,
it's pretty much an essential thing
if you're going to be using this Mac,
because this is how you're going to be able to log in
to the App Store, download updates,
and also have some more control over your Mac,
such as turning on a feature called Find My Mac,
which is helpful if your Mac is lost or stolen.
Now, again, I'm not going to do this now.
I already have an Apple ID,
but I'm just going to click set this up later,
because I'm going to sign in later on.
It's going to give you a warning dialog box.
So I'm just going to click skip again.
And this is just some terms and conditions.
So if you want to read that, you can.
I don't think anyone ever does.
So I'm just going to hit agree, and hit agree again.
So this next screen
is where you're actually going to set a username
and a password for your particular user account.
So it's pretty self-explanatory: full name.
It doesn't have to be your full name.
So I'm just going to put CreatedLabs
for that and also the account name.
And I'm also going to change this profile picture,
because I don't really like it.
So we can click on that
and then we can go to defaults
and then we can scroll down here,
and we can find a profile picture that we want to use.
So I quite like this penguin.
So I'm going to click on that
and I'm going to click save.
And password, I'm just going to enter in a password
that I want to use.
And I'll put it in a second time.
And this can be anything.
It doesn't have to be uppercase or lowercase.
It can literally just be four zeros or ABCD.
It doesn't really matter.
Obviously do make it secure
if you want the laptop to be secure, though.
Password hint. That's just a hint for your password.
I don't need that.
So I'm going to click continue.
Now this is just the express setup option.
So essentially all this means
is it's just going to give you the default options
and you don't have to go through the menus, selecting stuff.
So what you can do is I recommend just clicking continue.
But if you do want to click customize settings here,
I'll show you what it is.
So it just allows you to fine tune
what you want turned on
and what you also want turned off.
So for location services,
the Mac will be able to tell Maps exactly where you are
based on your IP address.
I'm going enable that because that's a cool feature.
Analytics: if you want to share analytics
with Apple to help Apple itself
and the app developers improve their products and services.
Now this is anonymous.
It's not going to give them that much information,
but you can choose not to do that, like me.
I'm going to click continue.
Screen time is a really cool feature.
Like it says here,
it's just going to give you some idea
of how much time you spend on the Mac each day
and each week.
And it's actually going to give you a breakdown
per app and per program.
So if you notice you're spending a lot of time
on Facebook or a particular game,
you can actually log that and you can see it change
day to day and week to week.
I personally use that. It's a pretty cool feature.
So I'm going to click continue and leave that turned on.
Now you're probably all familiar with Siri by now.
And I'm actually going to enable this,
because I do use Siri from time to time.
So I'm going to click continue.
And I'm actually going to now set this up,
which does require saying a few sentences.
Open the documents folder.
What's the weather?
And as you can see there,
that was a really, really simple
and straightforward process.
Haste is now set up and is ready to use.
So we're going to click continue.
Now this gives you the option to improve Siri
and dictation by essentially sending your audio to Apple.
Now, again, this is anonymized,
so they're not going to be able to tell it's you.
It's just going to be snippets of your voice here and there.
I don't personally like that.
I think that's a little bit intrusive.
So I'm going to go not now.
But again, if you do choose to share audio recordings,
it's really not a big deal.
It really does help Siri.
So this choice is totally up to you.
So we'll click continue.
Now for touch ID,
this is where you're actually going to be able
to hold your finger on the little touch ID/power button
and set up your fingerprint.
So you can choose to set this up later
or we can choose to set it up now,
which I recommend, 'cause it's a very, very cool feature,
if your particular Mac has this.
So let's click continue.
And what we're going to do is we're just going to place
whatever finger we want to use with the Mac
on the power button several times.
And we're going to lift it up and down,
and as you can see there, it's imprinting a fingerprint.
And now we're going to do the edges of the finger.
So I'm just kind of rolling it around. Do the tip.
Do the base of the finger.
And you can see now the touch ID is ready.
Okay, so now we're going to hit continue
to go onto the next step.
And this is going to allow you to choose your look.
So you can choose light mode, dark mode, or auto,
which is essentially going to change it
depending on the time of day.
So during day, it's going to be light
and during night, it's going to switch to dark mode.
I'm just going to set this to auto,
but again, you can come back and set this
in the system settings if you don't like it later on.
Now true tone display is pretty cool.
So it allows your Mac screen to automatically adapt
to the lighting conditions around you.
So if the light in a particular room
is like a really yellowy color,
the screen on the Mac will change to sort of
a brighter white color to sort of offset that.
And this is really handy to give you an accurate color
on the Mac at all times,
regardless of whatever lighting condition
you're currently in.
And we can see here, if we actually click on this,
you can see the difference between true tone display
a little bit, hopefully through the screen.
But to be honest, there's really not much of a difference,
so I'm just going to leave it enabled,
and I'm going to hit continue.
Now, this is just going to take a few minutes
just to finish off.
It's going to apply all those settings we just chose
and then take you to the desktop.
And as you can see now,
the Mac is fully set up and we are ready to go.
So what I'll do first of all
is show you guys some really quick
and handy keyboard shortcuts.
Now, if you want to search for something on the Mac,
you can actually bring up the Spotlight Search,
which is a little kind of magnifying glass
up in the corner here.
But if you want to bring that up easily,
you can hold down the command and then press the space bar.
And that's going to bring up the Spotlight Search
and then you can search for whatever you want on your Mac.
Another cool one is command and Q,
and that's actually going to let you quit programs.
So say for example, if we open up Safari,
if we hold down command, and then we press the Q button,
that's going to shut down Safari.
And then another really cool one
is hold down command and then press the tab key.
And that's going to let you switch
between different programs.
So that's very, very handy for multitasking
and that kind of thing.
Now, if you want to know how to record the screen
for any reason, you can come in here
and you can press the Spotlight Search,
and you can search for QuickTime, which is a native Mac app.
And then we're going to select QuickTime Player.
We're going to hit file.
And then we're going to click new screen recording,
and we're going to select capture entire screen.
And you can see our cursor has changed
to a little camera icon.
So we're just going to click anywhere on the screen.
And as you can see up here.
Going to see a little kind of round circle
with a square in the middle,
and that means we are currently recording.
So what we'll do now is we'll actually jump
into the screen now that we're recording,
and I'll show you a few other things.
Okay, so Mac OS is definitely different to Windows.
So it might take you some time to get used to it,
but just starting off with basics.
If you want to access files, come down here into Finder.
You can click on that and you can see your applications
that you've installed, or that come stock with the Mac.
You can see what's on your desktop.
You have a documents folder,
and you also have a downloads folder.
And if we want to install some applications,
there's two ways of doing that.
So the first one is we can come into Safari
and let's say for example, we want install Google Chrome.
We can just search for that.
And then we can come to the downloads for Google Chrome.
We can download that,
and we're using a Mac with an Apple chip.
So I'll select this one.
And we'll click allow,
'cause we do want to download that.
And there's two places you can access this.
So you can see it up here on the top right-hand corner.
Or you can actually come down here
to the bottom right-hand corner,
and you'll actually always have a downloads shortcut.
And if you click on this,
you'll be able to see the Google Chrome application.
So let's click on that.
And installing apps on the Mac is super, super easy.
So once you click on that .DMG download folder,
you just want to come over here
and you literally just want to click on Google Chrome,
hold, and then drag it and drop it
into the applications folder.
And that is it.
You can see there, it's going to install it
and it's going to copy that particular app to applications.
And if we give it a few more seconds until it's done.
And if we now shut this down by clicking the little red X.
By the way, this is how you'd close windows.
This is how you minimize, and this is how you maximize.
So just quickly, if we come back to Chrome,
we click that green thing.
You can see it's now maximized.
We go back up on the corner,
un-click that, we go back to window mode.
If we click the yellow button,
it's going to minimize it into the tray.
And if we click that again.
If we click the X button,
it's going to close the window,
but it's not going to close the app.
If we want to close the app,
we can come up here to Safari and we can click quit Safari.
Or we can use that cool little shortcut I did before,
command and then Q.
And that will shut Safari down as well.
Okay. So let's go into finder and we'll go to applications.
And if we search for Google Chrome,
you can see there, it is now installed.
Now you will see under locations,
you'll see a Google Chrome entry here.
And once you finish installing Google Chrome,
you can just eject that.
That's just a virtual disk
that allows you to actually install applications.
So we'll just click the eject button,
and that will disappear.
Now, if you want to download different apps,
you can also come into the App Store down here,
and you can search for different apps
that you want to download.
You will have to actually sign in to your Apple ID
or make an Apple ID before you download.
But this is going to give you access
to a lot of different things.
So as of a few days ago, if you're using an M1 Mac
or any kind of Mac using Apple Silicon,
you can get stuff like Office 365 here,
but anything you can't download on Google Chrome or Safari,
you can just come to the App Store,
and there's probably going to be an app for it.
So you can download it from here if you like.
Now moving on to the settings.
If we hit the Apple logo and then we go system preferences,
this is going to give you access
to all of your settings and all your preferences
for the Mac.
So for example, we can come in here
to desktop and screensaver,
and we can select a background photo
and we can also come up here to screensaver
and we can specify after how much time
you want the screen saver to start.
And if we come back, we can also come into something
like displays, and we can change the scaling.
So if you want the text to be bigger.
I just personally leave it at default.
And if we come back,
there are a lot more things you can do here.
But I also recommended coming
into the track pad option if you're using a laptop,
and I recommend to turn on tap to click.
And that essentially means that you can just tap on a part
on the screen instead of actually clicking the track pad.
And that's going to select something.
Now definitely do spend some time
coming in here and familiarizing yourself
with the gestures,
and also scroll and zoom.
And all the different clicks you can do.
Because there's quite a lot of functionality
on the actual track pad on the Mac.
So I hope this video was helpful.
I'm not going to make it too long.
This was just supposed to be a very basic introduction
to setting up your Mac and Mac OS.
If you want more in-depth tutorials
and walkthroughs, stay tuned on my channel
because I will be making more of these.
But apart from that, enjoy your new Mac.
And hopefully I will see you in another video.