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11” MacBook Air

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  • 9 hr battery
  • 2.38 pounds
  • 30 days of standby time
  • 1.6GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor
  • 4 Gb of Ram
  • latest WiFi technology 3xs faster
  • $ 899 - 1099
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13” MacBook Air

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  • 12 hr battery
  • 4 Gb of Ram
  • 1.6GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor
  • $999 - 1199
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13” MacBook Pro

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  • Over 4 million pixels packed into 15”
  • Force Touch Trackpad
  • 10 hrs of Battery life
  • 2.7GHz - 2.9 GHz dual-core Intel Core i5
  • Intel Iris Graphics 6100
  • 8 Gb of Ram
  • Led-backlit Retina display
  • $1,299 - 1,799
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15” MacBook Pro

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  • Over 5 million pixels packed into 15”
  • Force Touch Trackpad
  • 9 hrs of Battery life
  • 2.2GHz - 2.5 GHz dual-core Intel Core i7
  • Intel Iris Pro Graphics
  • 16 Gb of Ram
  • Led-backlit Retina display
  • 1,999 - 2,499
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Apple Display Apple Care Protection Plan

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  • ​Extends one yr warranty to three years from original purchase date.
  • Extends telephone support from 90 days to over 1k days.
  • Global repair coverage for your Mac both parts and labor
  • Mail In Repair, prepaid shipping box provided
  • Carry In Repair - Genius Bar / Authorized service provider
  • Hardware coverage on Battery, included accs, Ram, Airport, Superdrive and apple display included in purchase.
  • Software Support inluded on OS X, iCloud. Quick How to’s, Printer and Airport networks
  • *can only be purchased while Mac is covered under the standard one-year limited warranty.
  • $99
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File Vault

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  • If you store sensitive information on your Mac, you can use FileVault encryption to protect the files from being seen or copied.
  • FileVault encodes the information stored on your Mac so that it can’t be read unless the login password is entered.
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Force Touch Trackpad

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  • Force Click: looking up the definition of a word, previewing a file in the Finder, or creating a new Calendar event when you Force click a date in the text of an email.
  • Accelerators: Gradually add pressure to the trackpad to vary the speed with which you fast-forward through a QuickTime movie or zoom in on a location in Maps.
  • Pressure sensitive drawing: Press lightly for a thin stroke or harder for a thick one when marking up a Mail attachment or creating a signature for forms in Preview.
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Hard Drive v.s Solid State Drive

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  • traditional spinning hard drive (HDD) is the basic nonvolatile storage on a computer
  • (SSD) The flash memory chips store your data and don’t require constant power to retain that data.
  • An SSD-equipped PC will boot in seconds, certainly under a minute.
  • A hard drive requires time to speed up to operating specs, and will continue to be slower than an SSD during normal use
  • If you’re rough on your equipment, an SSD is recommended.
  • Even the quietest HDD will emit a bit of noise
  • SSDs make virtually no noise at all, since they’re non-mechanical.
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What is Hyper-Threading

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  • (Intel Core i7 only)
  • allows two threads to run simultaneously on each core.
  • quad-core iMac has eight virtual cores, all of which are recognized by OS X.
  • extra threads are useful in demanding software.
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iCloud Definition

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  • simplifies your digital life by bringing all these important pieces of information into a single account accessible from any Mac or iOS device
  • on multiple devices, you can even use Handoff to pass a document seamlessly between them, picking up right where you left off. It all happens automatically, securely, and wirelessly.2
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21.5” iMac with 4k Retina Display​

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  • 5mm thin
  • All-in-one aluminium and glass enclosure
  • 8Gb of Ram
  • 1TB hard drive
  • Intel Iris Pro Graphics 6200
  • 3.1GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 processor
  • configurable optional Fusion Drive combines high capacity and hard drive with high-performance flash storage
  • $ 1,499
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iMac Apple Care Protection Plan

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  • Extends one yr warranty to three years from original purchase date.
  • Extends telephone support from 90 days to over 1k days.
  • Global repair coverage for your Mac both parts and labor
  • Mail In Repair, prepaid shipping box provided
  • Carry In Repair - Genius Bar / Authorized service provider
  • Hardware coverage on Battery, included accs, Ram, Airport, Superdrive and apple display included in purchase.
  • Software Support inluded on OS X, iCloud. Quick How to’s, Printer and Airport networks
  • *can only be purchased while Mac is covered under the standard one-year limited warranty.
  • $169
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iMac w. 5k Retina Display

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  • 14.7 million pixels.
  • All-in-one aluminium and glass enclosure
  • 3.2GHz - 3.3 GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 processor
  • 8Gb of Ram
  • LED-backlit widescreen Retina 5K display
  • 4x’s the standard latest and greatest
  • $1,799 - 2,299
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Mac Mini Apple Care Protection Plan

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  • Extends one yr warranty to three years from original purchase date.
  • Extends telephone support from 90 days to over 1k days.
  • Global repair coverage for your Mac both parts and labor
  • Mail In Repair, prepaid shipping box provided
  • Carry In Repair - Genius Bar / Authorized service provider
  • Hardware coverage on Battery, included accs, Ram, Airport, Superdrive and apple display included in purchase.
  • Software Support inluded on OS X, iCloud. Quick How to’s, Printer and Airport networks
  • *can only be purchased while Mac is covered under the standard one-year limited warranty.
  • $99
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Mac Pro

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  • Intel Xeon E5 processor
  • 12-core processing power
  • four-channel memory controller
  • enough power to edit full-resolution 4K video while simultaneously rendering effects in the background — and still connect up to three 4K displays.
  • D300 Graphics - D500 Graphics processors
  • 12 - 16 Gb of Ram
  • Connect up to 3 5k displays
  • Connect up to 6 thunderbolt displays
  • 9.9 inches TALL 11 pounds
  • Mac Pro comes with 90 days of complimentary telephone technical support and a one-year limited warranty
  • $2,999 - $3,999
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Mac Pro Apple Care Protection Plan

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  • Extends one yr warranty to three years from original purchase date.
  • Extends telephone support from 90 days to over 1k days.
  • Global repair coverage for your Mac both parts and labor
  • Mail In Repair, prepaid shipping box provided
  • Carry In Repair - Genius Bar / Authorized service provider
  • Hardware coverage on Battery, included accs, Ram, Airport, Superdrive and apple display included in purchase.
  • Software Support inluded on OS X, iCloud. Quick How to’s, Printer and Airport networks
  • *can only be purchased while Mac is covered under the standard one-year limited warranty.
  • $249 or $183 w. Student discount
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MacBook

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  • 13.1 mm thin
  • two pounds,
  • 12” Retina display
  • three million retina pixels
  • fifth-generation Intel Core M “Broadwell” processor
  • Force touch trackpad
  • Fully equipped for the wireless world, latest WiFi and Bluetooth technology.
  • USB-C, speedy USB3 transfers, 1/3 the size
  • FANLESS
  • 8Gb of Ram
  • Nine hr Battery
  • $1299 - 1599
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MacBook / MacBook Air’s / MacBook Pro 13” Apple Care Protection Plan

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  • Extends one yr warranty to three years from original purchase date.
  • Extends telephone support from 90 days to over 1k days.
  • Global repair coverage for your Mac both parts and labor
  • Mail In Repair, prepaid shipping box provided
  • Carry In Repair - Genius Bar / Authorized service provider
  • Hardware coverage on Battery, included accs, Ram, Airport, Superdrive and apple display included in purchase.
  • Software Support inluded on OS X, iCloud. Quick How to’s, Printer and Airport networks
  • *can only be purchased while Mac is covered under the standard one-year limited warranty.
  • $249 $183 with student discount
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MacBook Pro 15” Apple Care Protection Plan

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  • Extends one yr warranty to three years from original purchase date.
  • Extends telephone support from 90 days to over 1k days.
  • Global repair coverage for your Mac both parts and labor
  • Mail In Repair, prepaid shipping box provided
  • Carry In Repair - Genius Bar / Authorized service provider
  • Hardware coverage on Battery, included accs, Ram, Airport, Superdrive and apple display included in purchase.
  • Software Support inluded on OS X, iCloud. Quick How to’s, Printer and Airport networks
  • *can only be purchased while Mac is covered under the standard one-year limited warranty.
  • $349
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What is Memory (Ram)

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  • increases performance and enables your computer to perform faster and better.
  • The more memory your computer has, the more apps you can run simultaneously, and the better performance you get from your computer
  • standard memory configuration to support day-to-day tasks
  • Upgrade the memory in your iMac to enjoy greater performance for more intensive computing tasks
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OS X El Capitan Overview

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Highlights

  • Photos - editing extensions, full control of orgainzation.
  • Spilt view - Focus on two apps simultaneously without distractions from your desktop.
  • Mission Control - Windows on your desktop arrange themselves in a single layer
  • Safari - Pinned sites enable your favorite websites to stay active on the left side of your tab bar.
  • Notes - Staying organized and infromative
  • Spotlight - Search in your words
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OS X El Capitan: Metal

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  • Metal is a new graphics core technology that gives games and apps near-direct access to the graphics processor on your Mac,
  • speeds system-level graphics rendering by up to 50 percent
  • as well as making it up to 40 percent more efficient
  • Metal allows the main processor and graphics processor to work more effectively together, boosting high-performance apps. And Metal is designed to be great for games,
  • improving draw call performance by up to 10x and paving the way for new levels of realism and detail
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What is the Processor

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  • A central processing unit is the electronic circuit within a computer that carries out the instructions of a computer program
  • Get amazing performance from the quad-core Intel Core i5 or Core i7 processor
  • four processor cores on a single chip.
  • advanced Core microarchitecture that features an integrated memory controller
  • faster, more direct access to memory
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What is Turbo Boost 2.0

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  • dynamic performance technology that automatically boosts the processor clock speed based on workload
25
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What does the clock speed mean?

ex: 2.7GHz Processor

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  • A measure of how quickly each core on a processor can handle operations, generally speaking.
  • higher clock speed means better performance
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What is cached data?

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  • a component that stores data so future requests for that data can be served faster
  • the data stored in a cache might be the results of an earlier computation, or the duplicates of data stored
  • Cache is like a drawer under your desk you can drop extra items you need a lot into, allowing you to grab them quickly when you need them without having to ask RAM for them
  • ​Whenever the CPU finds that it keeps on using the same data over and over, it stores that data in its cache.
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What is Flash Storage

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  • delivers significantly improved performance compared to a traditional hard drive
  • notice when launching apps, or booting up.
  • Fusion Drive combines superfast flash storage with a traditional hard drive.
  • It automatically and dynamically moves frequently used files to flash for quicker access.
  • Over time, as the system learns how you work
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What is New in OS X El Capitan Notes

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  • Now you can turn a list into a checklist in a snap. Or easily add a photo, video, URL, or map location to a note.
  • Save content from other apps.
  • Use the Attachments Browser to see everything in one place.
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What is new in OS X El Capitan Photos

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  • New editing extensions let you go further with your photos.
  • Everything in its place.
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What is OS X El Capitan Mission Control

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  • A single swipe, all the windows on your desktop arrange themselves in a single layer, with nothing stacked or hidden.
  • Mission Control places your windows in the same relative location, so you can spot the one you’re looking for more quickly
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What is the difference between Core i5 and i7?

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  • faster CPU performance from Core i7 than Core i5
  • Core i7 processors have larger cache (on-board memory) to help the processor deal with repetitive tasks faster
  • Core i7 chips carry either 6MB or 4MB of cache. Core i5 chips have 3MB
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What is the OS X El Capitan User Experience

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  • Simpler, smarter ways to do the things you do most with your Mac.
  • working in multiple apps at the same time.
  • Spotlight is more expressive and more powerful & knowledgeable.
  • Keeping tabs on your favorite websites and know where the audio is coming from.
  • Taking notes just as you would on iOS 9.
  • Call out your cursor, Move mouse vividly to get a GIANT cursor
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What is the OS X El Capitan User Performance

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  • Improvements under the hood make snappier and more efficient in all kinds of everyday tasks — from opening PDFs to accessing your email.
  • Metal for Mac, you get faster and more fluid graphics performance in games, high-performance apps, and many other places.
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What is the OS X El Capitan Spilt View

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  • automatically fills your screen with the two apps you choose