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.
 Gigabit Ethernet USB 3 SDXC
Connect to the Charge devices, Transfer photos
Internet or a connect external from your camera’s
local network storage, and more memory card

Power
button
Audio in
Built-in
power supply

HDMI Thunderbolt 2 Headphone

Connect to Connect external Plug in headphones
your HDTV displays and high- or external speakers
performance devices

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 Help Finder Dock System Wi-Fi Spotlight

bar menu Preferences
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 Open Launchpad Browse the Mac App Store

Group apps by dragging one on Click the icon in the Click the icon in the dock.
top of another. 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 Handoff

Make an iPhone call or send An app icon appears in
a text message by clicking a the Dock when an activity
phone number on your Mac. 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 to your Reading List to read later,
on your Mac. Just click in the Smart and check out Shared Links for
Search field and see icons for your pages posted by people you follow
favorite websites, or type a search on Twitter and LinkedIn. The Tab
term or web address—Safari knows view organizes all of your tabs and
the difference and will send you to makes it easy to locate the one
the right place. You can save pages you’re looking for.

Sidebar Favorites view Share

Your bookmarks, Reading Click the Smart Search Easily send webpages
List, and Shared Links field to see icons for or share them with
appear in the Sidebar. your favorite websites. your social networks.
 Mail

Mail lets you manage all your email uploaded to iCloud. And Markup
accounts from a single, ad-free lets you fill out and sign forms or
inbox. It works with popular email annotate a PDF. The first time you
services like iCloud, Gmail, Yahoo open Mail, Setup Assistant helps
Mail, and AOL Mail. With Mail Drop, you get started.
large attachments are automatically

One-stop email Conversation view Search

View all your accounts See all the email Quickly narrow search
in Mail. messages from a results to find exactly
conversation thread. what you want.
 Calendar

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

Add an event Event inspector Calendar view

Double-click in a Calendar shows an event’s Select the view you
calendar to create location on a map and prefer—day, week,
a new event. calculates travel time. month, or year.
 Maps

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

Directions Favorites Send to iPhone

Maps provides detailed Favorite locations Send directions to your
directions, including are pushed to all iPhone for voice navigation
traffic information. your devices. on the way there.
 Spotlight

Spotlight is an easy way to find shortcut. Just start typing, and

anything on your Mac—documents, Spotlight shows you rich previews
contacts, apps, messages, and more. of your results. You can use Spotlight
No matter what you’re doing on to look up information from sources
your Mac, you can access Spotlight like Wikipedia, Bing, news, Maps,
through its menu icon or by using movies, and more,* and to convert
the Command-Space keyboard currencies and units of measure.

Results Previews Easy access

See Spotlight results Interact with previews Click the Spotlight icon
on the left and scroll right from Spotlight. in the menu bar or
through them. press Command-Space.

*Not all features are available in all areas.

 iTunes

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

Your library iTunes Radio iTunes Store

View your music, Enjoy free streaming radio Discover and buy
movies, TV shows, tailored from top music in new music, movies,
podcasts, and more. the iTunes Store. and more.
 iPhoto, iMovie, and GarageBand

iPhoto, iMovie, and GarageBand and calendars. iMovie lets you turn
give you amazing ways to create your home videos into beautiful
and share your photos, movies, movies and epic Hollywood-style
and music. iPhoto helps you trailers. And GarageBand has
organize your library by Faces, everything you need to learn to
Places, and Events, and create play an instrument, write music,
gorgeous photo books, cards, or record a song.

Events Projects Share

Simply move your cursor Easily create and order Post your favorites to
to quickly skim through personalized books, Facebook or share them
the photos in any Event. cards, and calendars. with iCloud or Messages.

iPhoto
 Pages, Numbers, and Keynote

Create stunning documents, with the context-sensitive Format

spreadsheets, and presentations on Panel. You can even open and edit
your Mac. Beautiful templates give Microsoft Office files. And you can
you a great head start—simply add quickly and easily share a link to
your own words and photos. And your work with Mail or Messages,
customizing everything is a snap right from your toolbar.

Add graphics and more Share Format Panel

Create media-rich Easily share a link to Your tools are just a click
documents with images, your work with Mail away with the intelligent
movies, charts, and more. or Messages. 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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