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Macs All-in-One For Dummies
By: Joe Hutsko , Barbara BoydeBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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The ultimate beginner resource for learning the key features and tools of your Mac
Macs are easy to use, but this guide helps you take advantage of all the cool features and make the most of your Mac. Fully updated, it covers the newest operating system, as well as the latest versions of iLife and iWork. The featured minibooks introduce you to Mac basics; photos, music, and movies; the Internet; other Mac programs; timesaving tips with a Mac; and Mac networking. Serves as an ideal resource for those switching to a Mac from a PC as well as for Mac users who are upgrading Helps you set up and customize your Mac and get to know the Mac way Explains how to get online, surf with Safari, and send and receive e-mail Covers working with photos, music, and movies, as well as crunching numbers and creating presentations with iWork Explores setting up a network, running Windows on a Mac via Bootcamp, and automating your Mac Provides troubleshooting tips and advice on protecting your Mac
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| Release Date: 02-02-2012 | |
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Macs All-in-One For Dummies
Chapter One
Networking Your Macs
In This Chapter
Creating a wired network
Creating a wireless network
If you have multiple Macs in the same place, you might find it convenient to connect your Macs to a network. A network allows multiple computers to share files and other resources like printers or backup hard drives. Although you could copy a file on a USB flash drive, plug it into another computer, and copy the files onto the second computer or print using the second computer's printer, such an approach (dubbed sneaker net) is tedious and inconvenient. However, when multiple computers connect to a network, they can share files almost as quickly and easily as copying a file from one folder to another.
Creating a Wired Network
The simplest wired network just connects two computers together using either a FireWire cable or a cable that conforms to a networking cable standard called Ethernet. Only the MacBook Air and two short-lived MacBook models shipped without a FireWire port. Every Mac (except the MacBook Air, again) has an Ethernet port, so if you plug a FireWire cable or Ethernet cable into the FireWire or Ethernet ports of two Macs, you'll have a simple network, as shown in Figure 1-1.
TECHNICAL STUFF
Ethernet cables are often identified by the speeds that they can send data. The earliest Ethernet cables were Category 3 (or Cat 3) cables and could transfer data at 10 megabits per second (Mbps). The next generation of Ethernet cables was Category 5 (Cat 5) cables, which could transfer data at 100 Mbps. Category 6 (Cat 6) cables transfer data at 1,000 Mbps or one
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