I plugged a cable into my Ethernet port and it just connected. Before I used the cable a Wi Fi wizard came up asking for my password and again this was pretty seamless.
Not everything on the Mac is straightforward but some things are a joy. I plugged in my printer and the Mac instantly recognised it and asked me if I wanted to use it - I clicked yes and that all that was needed. If you want a backup solution just plug in an external drive, the Mac will ask you if you want it to be a time machine backup, say yes and that pretty much it. To back up your windows images just include the VM Fusion virtual machine file in any backup. No more worrying about imaging solutions. Use the free and easy Carbon Copy cloner to create a complete bootable image of your Mac on an external drive. The side affect of this is that you can effectively using this method have a bootable solution for Windows via Fusion on a USB drive. Using Apple Mail is pretty easy and it is my preferred mail client. I think all I needed to do was give my email address and password and the Mac intelligently inserted all the other settings for me. I use Mail in modern view . The only downside of this is that for some reason apple has forgotten to enable letter navigation when mailed is sorted by sender in modern view. However, If you switch to classic view then letter based sorting is available. That is start typing the name of the sender and you will jump there. Command comma will bring up the view preferences for this. Finally I would recommend not spending money on word processors unless you are absolutely convinced you need one. Text Edit is a fully fledged word processor, despite its name, and Beam is a good free alternative. I am tending to standardise all my documents as RTF now which are usable pretty much on all platforms. Regards David Griffith. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of chris hallsworth Sent: 15 January 2012 11:50 To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility Subject: Connect to wifi on mac Hello all. As you know, I am researching the possibility of getting a mac in the future. This may not happen until a few months or more, but still, I want to ask a question. How would I go about connecting to wifi networks? I was able to connect to my Sky wifi with no problems on both the iPhone and iPod Touch, once I changed the WPA key anyway, but that was down to user error. Is it a similar technique on the mac? If for some reason I cannot connect to my wifi network, can I just plug the ethernet cable into the appropriate port and it will just connect? Please advise. Thanks! <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
