Getting Started with a New Mac

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For AskWoody members who have purchased a new Mac, there are a handful of good Getting Started articles Apple has sent me that I wanted to share with the community:

Migrating Content to a New Mac

Use Migration Assistant to move content from another computer to a new Mac. To move content from an old Mac or Time Machine backup to a new Mac, see:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204350

To migrate content from a Windows PC to a new Mac, see:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204087

Configure System Preferences

System Preferences is the Mac version of the Control Panel in Windows. A good overview article on System Preferences is:

https://support.apple.com/kb/PH25594?locale=en_US&viewlocale=en_US

Working with Notifications

The Notification Center on macOS stores notifications and widgets. To learn more on how to manage it, see:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204079

Continuity

There is a set of services that allows Macs and iOS devices to work together known as Continuity. To learn more about these features and setting them up, visit:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204681

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Thanks for today’s series of articles (and all the others as well). It’s really helpful to have a bunch of links all in one place.

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