8 PART 1 Tie Myself Down with a Desktop? Preposterous!
Well, fellow Mac road warrior, it takes only two seconds and one move— closing
the lid — for you to gear up. That’s because your MacBook is a self-contained
world, providing virtually all the essentials you’ll nd on a desktop iMac or Mac
mini. This is indeed the second “decade of the laptop,” meshing nicely with your
smartphone and that wireless connection at your local coee shop. You have
selected the right companion for the open road.
Unlike Apple’s other designs, such as the Mac mini, the Mac Pro and the iMac,
your MacBook looks like a PC laptop running Windows. (In fact, an Intel-based
Mac laptop can run Windows if you absolutely must.) But your laptop holds a
number of pleasant surprises that no PC laptop or tablet can oer— and, with the
MacBook, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro, you’ll lose pounds and inches from
your chassis! In this chapter, I introduce you to the hardware and all the major
parts of the machine. You even nd out how to unpack and connect your com-
puter. And, as frosting on the cake, I preview the software of which Apple is so
proud, as well as the accessories you should buy now rather than later.
Welcome to your Mac laptop, good reader. Gear up!
An Overview of Your Mac Laptop
Sure, your MacBook Pro might be about half an inch thin (a MacBook is even more
svelte than that— I get to that later in the chapter), but a lot of superb design
lives inside. You encounter the same parts you’d nd in a desktop machine. In the
following sections, I discuss those important parts— both the stu you can see
and the stu shoehorned within.
The parts you probably recognize
Every laptop requires some of the same gizmos. Figure1-1 helps you track them
down. Of course, as you’d expect, a computer has a body of sorts in which all the
innards and brains are stored, a display screen, a keyboard, a trackpad or other
pointing device, and ports for powering and exchanging data with outside toys.
That magnicent screen
What a view you have! Today’s Mac laptops feature a 12-, 13-, or 15-inch LED
display. LED screens use far less electricity than their antique CRT ancestors, and
they emit practically no radiation.
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