A.7. The Setup Assistant

A.7. The Setup Assistant When the Mac restarts after the installation, the first thing you experience is one of the most visually stunning post-installation OS startup movies in history
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A.7. The Setup AssistantA.7. The Setup AssistantWhen the Mac restarts after the installation, the first thing you experience is one of themost visually stunning post-installation OS startup movies in history: a flythrough ofdeep space, accompanied by scooby-dooby music and a fancy parade of 3-D, computer-generated translations of the word Welcome. Once Apple has quite finished showingoff its multimedia prowess, you arrive at a Welcome screen.Note: You also hear a mans voice letting you know that if youre blind, you can pressEsc to hear audio guidance for setting up the Mac and learning VoiceOve.If you do so,youre treated to a crash course in VoiceOver, the screen-control/screen-reading softwaredescribed on Section 15.5.1.3. This, by the way, is the only time youll be offered thistutorial, so pay attention. (Hint: Here are the basics. Hold down the Control and Optionkeys and press the arrow keys to highlight different elements of the screen, hearing thempronounced. When a new window opens, press Control-Option-Shift-W to read thecontents of the window. Press Control-Option-Space bar to click.)Once again, youre in for a click-through-the-screens experience, this time with the aim ofsetting up your Macs various options. After answering the questions on each screen,click Continue.The number and sequence of information screens youll encounter depend on whetheryouve upgraded an existing Mac or started fresh, but here are some of the possibilities: • Welcome. Click the name of the country youre in. • Select Your Keyboard. Different countries require different keyboard layouts. For example, if you choose the Canadian layout, pressing the ] key on a U.S. keyboard produces the ç symbol. Click Continue. • Do you already own a Mac? If you choose Transfer my information from another Mac, the installer will assist you in sucking all of your old programs, files, folders, and settings from the old Mac to the new one. You have to help it, however, by connecting a FireWire cable between the two Macs, and then restarting the old Mac while holding down its T key. (FireWire connection established.) Yes, thats right: the installer is putting you into FireWire Disk Mode (Section 6.2) for super-high-speed transfer. Youre using the Mac OS X Migration Assistant, shown in Figure A-2. The bottom of the screen lets you know how much stuff youve tagged for transferring, and how much disk space remains on the new Mac. When you click Transfer, the data-copying process begins. Figure A-2. The Migration Assistant is actually pretty amazing. It brings over to your new Mac (or new Mac OS X installation) all of the files, settings, folders, and even installed programs from an older Mac—or, in times of tragedy, from a Time Machine backup (see Chapter 6). Along the way, youll be asked whose account folder(s) you want brought over, which other stuff (like applications, files, and folders) to copy, and which sorts of settings. When its all over, you might have to reactivate a couple of Adobe programs, but otherwise, you should be ready to roll on your new (or new-feeling) Mac.• Select a Wireless Service. This is your chance to introduce the Mac to any wireless networks in the vicinity. Click the network name you want to join, if you see it. If you dont see it, click Rescan to make the Mac sniff again in an attempt to locate the network. Or if theres no wireless hot spot at all—hey, it could happen— click Different Network Setup. In that event, youre offered choices like Airport wireless, Cable modem/DSL modem, Local network (Ethernet), and My computer does not connect to the Internet. (Bummer!) When you click Continue, you may be asked for specific information—the local access number, account name, and password, and so on— regarding your Internet account. See Chapter 18 for advice on filling in these settings.• Enter Your Apple ID. Here, youre offered the chance to type in, or create, an Apple ID—which is your email address. An Apple ID doesnt cost anything, but it makes life easier if you want to buy songs from the Apple Music Store, order gift books or prints from iPhoto, and so on. (If you have a .Mac account—see Section 18.6—put that account info here.• Registration Information. This is your chance to become a grain of sand on the great beach of the Apple database (and to set up your own card in Mac OS Xs Address Book program). Tip: If youre not interested in providing your personal information to Apple, or if youve already done so during a previous installation, press -Q. A message offers you Skip, Shut Down, and Cancel buttons. If you click Skip, you jump straight ahead to Crea ...