Hello.

Quick Start Guide

Welcome to your new Mac mini.

Let us show you around.

This guide shows you what’s on your Mac, helps you set it up, and gets you up and running with tips for the apps you’ll use every day.

Power button

Built-in power supply

Power button

Built-in power supply

Gigabit Ethernet

Connect to the

Internet or a local network

HDMI

Connect to your HDTV

USB 3

Charge devices, connect external storage, and more

Thunderbolt 2

Connect external displays and high- performance devices

SDXC

Transfer photos from your camera’s memory card

Audio in

Headphone

Plug in headphones or external speakers

To learn more about ports and connectors, go to support.apple.com/kb/HT2494 .

AC power cord

Let’s get started

Press the power button to start up your Mac mini, and Setup Assistant guides you through a few simple steps to get you up and running. It walks you through connecting to your Wi-Fi network and creating a user account.

And it can even transfer your documents, email, photos, music, and movies to your new Mac from another Mac or PC.

Sign in with your Apple ID in Setup Assistant. This sets up your account in the Mac App Store and the iTunes Store, and in apps like Messages and

FaceTime, so they’re ready the first time you open them. It also sets up iCloud, so apps such as Mail, Contacts, Calendar, and Safari have all your latest information. If you don’t have an Apple ID, create one in Setup

Assistant.

To learn more about transferring files to your new Mac, go to support.apple.com/kb/HT6408 .

Get to know your desktop

The desktop is where you can find everything and do anything on your Mac.

The Dock at the bottom of the screen is a place to keep the apps you use most. It’s also where you can open System Preferences, which lets you customize your desktop and other settings. Click the Finder icon to get to all your files and folders.

The menu bar at the top has useful information about your Mac. To check the status of your wireless Internet connection, click the Wi-Fi icon. Your Mac automatically connects to the network you chose during setup. You can also find anything on your Mac and look up information using Spotlight.

Menu bar

Help menu

Finder Dock System

Preferences

Wi-Fi Spotlight

Find the app you want

Your Mac comes with great apps you can use to make the most of your photos, create documents, browse the web, and more. Use Launchpad to easily find all the apps on your Mac. Arrange apps any way you want and even group them in folders.

Find new apps on the Mac App Store. When you download an app you like, it appears in Launchpad. The Mac App Store lets you know when app and

OS X updates are available, and can update them automatically.

Folders

Group apps by dragging one on top of another.

Open Launchpad

Click the icon in the

Dock.

Browse the Mac App Store

Click the icon in the dock.

Be up to date across all your devices iCloud lets you access your music, photos, calendars, contacts, documents, and more from your Mac, iOS devices, and even your PC. It keeps everything up to date automatically.

Create a Pages document, take a photo, or buy a song with one device, and it’s instantly available on all the others. With iCloud Drive, you can store your files in iCloud and organize them any way you like. Family Sharing makes it easy to share family members’ iTunes Store, App Store, and iBooks Store purchases. iCloud helps you locate and protect your Mac if you misplace it.

To choose the iCloud features you want, click System Preferences in the Dock and click iCloud.

Use your Mac and iOS devices together

When you sign in to iCloud on your Mac and iOS devices* they recognize when they’re near each other, enabling amazing features. You can make and receive iPhone calls on your Mac, using your Mac as a speakerphone.

SMS messages sent to your iPhone appear in Messages on your Mac, so you can keep track of all your conversations. With Instant Hotspot, your

Mac can automatically use the personal hotspot on your iPhone. And with

Handoff, you can start an activity on your Mac and pick it up right where you left off on your iOS device—and vice versa.

iPhone calls

Make an iPhone call or send a text message by clicking a phone number on your Mac.

Handoff

An app icon appears in the Dock when an activity is handed off to your Mac.

*Requires a device running iOS 8. Your Mac and iOS device must be signed in to the same iCloud account.

Safari

Safari is the best way to surf the web on your Mac. Just click in the Smart

Search field and see icons for your favorite websites, or type a search term or web address—Safari knows the difference and will send you to the right place. You can save pages to your Reading List to read later, and check out Shared Links for pages posted by people you follow on Twitter and LinkedIn. The Tab view organizes all of your tabs and makes it easy to locate the one you’re looking for.

Sidebar

Your bookmarks, Reading

List, and Shared Links appear in the Sidebar.

Favorites view

Click the Smart Search field to see icons for your favorite websites.

Share

Easily send webpages or share them with your social networks.

Mail

Mail lets you manage all your email accounts from a single, ad-free inbox. It works with popular email services like iCloud, Gmail, Yahoo

Mail, and AOL Mail. With Mail Drop, large attachments are automatically uploaded to iCloud. And Markup lets you fill out and sign forms or annotate a PDF. The first time you open Mail, Setup Assistant helps you get started.

One-stop email

View all your accounts in Mail.

Conversation view

See all the email messages from a conversation thread.

Search

Quickly narrow search results to find exactly what you want.

Calendar

Keep track of your busy schedule with Calendar. You can create separate calendars—one for home, another for school, and a third for work. See all your calendars in a single window, or choose to see just the ones you want. Create and send invitations to events, then see who has responded. Add a location to an event, and Calendar will include a map, calculate travel time, and even display the weather forecast. Use iCloud to automatically update calendars on all your devices or share calendars with other iCloud users.

Add an event

Double-click in a calendar to create a new event.

Event inspector

Calendar shows an event’s location on a map and calculates travel time.

Calendar view

Select the view you prefer—day, week, month, or year.

Maps

Explore new destinations and get directions on your Mac with Maps.

View locations using standard or satellite imagery, or use Flyover to soar through select cities in photorealistic 3D. You can look up information for local points of interest like restaurants and hotels, and Maps shows you phone numbers, photos, and even Yelp reviews. Once you find your destination, Maps provides point-to-point directions that you can send to your iPhone for turn-by-turn voice navigation.

Directions

Maps provides detailed directions, including traffic information.

Favorites

Favorite locations are pushed to all your devices.

Send to iPhone

Send directions to your iPhone for voice navigation on the way there.

Spotlight

Spotlight is an easy way to find anything on your Mac—documents, contacts, apps, messages, and more.

No matter what you’re doing on your Mac, you can access Spotlight through its menu icon or by using the Command-Space keyboard shortcut. Just start typing, and

Spotlight shows you rich previews of your results. You can use Spotlight to look up information from sources like Wikipedia, Bing, news, Maps, movies, and more,* and to convert currencies and units of measure.

Results

See Spotlight results on the left and scroll through them.

Previews

Interact with previews right from Spotlight.

Easy access

Click the Spotlight icon in the menu bar or press Command-Space.

*Not all features are available in all areas.

iTunes iTunes makes it easy to enjoy your favorite music, movies, TV shows, and more on your Mac. iTunes includes the iTunes Store, where you can find classics or new favorites. It also includes iTunes Radio, a great way to discover music.

Your library

View your music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, and more.

iTunes Radio

Enjoy free streaming radio tailored from top music in the iTunes Store. iTunes Store

Discover and buy new music, movies, and more.

iPhoto, iMovie, and GarageBand iPhoto, iMovie, and GarageBand give you amazing ways to create and share your photos, movies, and music. iPhoto helps you organize your library by Faces,

Places, and Events, and create gorgeous photo books, cards, and calendars. iMovie lets you turn your home videos into beautiful movies and epic Hollywood-style trailers. And GarageBand has everything you need to learn to play an instrument, write music, or record a song.

Events

Simply move your cursor to quickly skim through the photos in any Event.

Projects

Easily create and order personalized books, cards, and calendars.

Share

Post your favorites to

Facebook or share them with iCloud or Messages.

iPhoto

Pages, Numbers, and Keynote

Create stunning documents, spreadsheets, and presentations on your Mac. Beautiful templates give you a great head start—simply add your own words and photos. And customizing everything is a snap with the context-sensitive Format

Panel. You can even open and edit

Microsoft Office files. And you can quickly and easily share a link to your work with Mail or Messages, right from your toolbar.

Add graphics and more

Create media-rich documents with images, movies, charts, and more.

Share

Easily share a link to your work with Mail or Messages.

Format Panel

Your tools are just a click away with the intelligent

Format Panel.

Pages

An important note

Please read this document and the safety information in the Important

Product Information Guide carefully before you first use your computer.

Learn more

You can find more information, watch demos, and learn even more about

Mac mini features at www.apple.com/mac-mini .

Help

You can often find answers to your questions, as well as instructions and troubleshooting information, in Mac Help. Click the Finder icon, click Help in the menu bar, and choose Mac Help. You can also use

Safari to get online help at www.apple.com/support .

OS X Utilities

If you have a problem with your Mac, OS X Utilities can help you restore your software and data from a Time Machine backup or reinstall OS X and

Apple apps. If your Mac detects a problem, it opens OS X Utilities automatically. Or you can open it manually by restarting your computer while holding down the Command and R keys.

Support

Your Mac mini comes with 90 days of technical support and one year of hardware repair warranty coverage at an Apple Retail Store or an Apple

Authorized Service Provider. Visit www.apple.com/support/macmini for Mac mini technical support. Or call 1-800-275-2273 . In Canada, call 1-800-263-3394 .

Not all features are available in all areas.

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