Just Bought My First MacBook Pro! Any Good Tips?

A useful book is Brad Miser's MacBook Pro Portable Genius...lots of great screen shots and great tips on getting great performance. And hang around on here and pick up tips. And use the new MBP A LOT.

Feel free to ask questions ... we are *generally* more bark than bite ... 😉

Also, here is some already prepared assistance from forum veterans that is worth a few hours of reading ... https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro?view=documents

Acquaint your self with 'Mac Help' in Finder and the Apple support articles that you can find at the right hand entry field on the menu bar on top. These two sources of information should be able to answer the vast majority of your questions and solve most of the problems that you may encounter.

Do yourself a big favor: DO NOT DRINK OR EAT WHEN USING YOUR MBP!!!!

Since you have a 17" MBP, explore the possibility of getting an expresscard adapter for eSata connections to external HDDs. It will give you much faster data transfer speeds than Firewire.

Good luck.

Ciao.

And look seriously at external hard drives...backups and more work space are not trivial matters.

I bought my latest from the Mac friendly folks at OWC, http://www.macsales.com great drive the Mercury Elite Pro, quad interface so it can what OG is talking about, almost anything except Thunderbolt...and setup is a breeze.

Always have Genius Bar available to you, during business hours at least.

Do not forget to buy AppleCare for your MBP ($350) *BEFORE* 1 year from date of purchase (people order over the phone and forget about the days of initial shipping). Apple is pretty firm on not letting you buy it after that 1-year period.

Congratulations! Though i remembered how i was so excited to open my brand-new Macbook pro 13" for the very first time!.

Basic Thing, You need to Charge your battery for 7 hours in first charge, this is confirmed by technicians at apple service. The purpose is to calibrate your macbook pro battery and allow electrons to move freely for the first time.

Frequently check your Software update, because Apple occasionally update their software.

Anyway, you can learn yourself how to use your new macbook pro. it quite easy, as a matter of fact i only learned about 10 minutes and get used to it!.

You may want to throw the plastic cap for magsafe head to the rubbish, but you might be surprised as tons of user here would die to find replacement for the cap. That's why i don't throw it yet.

Have fun w/ your mac 🙂

Different Apple stores offer different training, so if you have access to more than one store, check the store website for training that is offered.

If you purchased the one-to-one you get a year of scheduled direct help with almost any topic from using the Mac to specific software use and projects.

Have a good time with your new computer and take advange of all that is offered, especially the free stuff.

Use Time Machine to back up your entire drive. Expect to stay in the year 2012, as Time Machine is just for backing up data 😟