Macs

I had trouble with the thumbprint thing at first, too. When Robin brought me the new iPhone 6 Plus, and set up the thumbprint, I complained that the iPad one no longer worked and I had to use the password each time. She laughed at me ........ she always does that !
You can go to settings and then re-do the thumbprint and then it will work again for you, it turns out. Mine even did a better job of getting all of the little parts of my thumbprint this time, so it is not as exacting as it was before, and now I don't have to do the pw unless I really mess up getting my thumb on there.
I imagine you probably already downloaded the iBook manual for your new MacBook; but if not, most of the answers on setting it up and syncing should be in there. The ones for the iPad are pretty informative, and even I can understand most of the stuff they are explaining.

 

I hate reading instructions or asking for help. I prefer to complain until I finally either figure it out for myself or learn to live with whatever it is that I don't like.

 

My mother always told me not to complain unless I intended to do something about it............just sayin".

 

Here is my dream Mac. New from Apple, it is the Mac Pro -- not the MacBook Pro, which I have, but the Mac Pro. It’s pretty impressive, but at an impressive price.

It’s 9.9 inches high, 6.6 inches in diameter, and weighs eleven pounds.

There are two types -- the Quad-Core and the 6-Core -- but if I am going to go that expensive, I may as well foot the extra thousand for six processors in one machine, which is even upgradable to eight cores.

16 GB DDR3 ECC memory, upgradable to 32 GB or even 64 GB.

I want it. If I hadn’t just bought a new MacBook Pro, I would be thinking about it right now.

It’s only $4,000 without the extras.

 

Regarding my new MacBook Pro. Although I have simply replaced an older MacBook with a newer MacBook, there is a learning curve. First, there are no USB ports or any kind of connections other than the Thunderbolt connections, but I bought adaptors so that part of it is okay. However, the Trackpad works differently and I haven't yet been able to figure out how to configure it to work like the one that I use with my iMac or like the one on my old MacBook. I suppose that if there were my first Mac, I'd probably learn to use it without so much differently.

Dragging and dropping works differently, and I haven't really figure out how it works on my new one. On my iMac, I would do a soft click over whatever I wanted to drag, move it to where I wanted to put it, and then release it. My new one opens it up instead. If I try to drag and drop an image, it opens the image in Preview instead. Oddly, once in a while I am able to get it to drag and drop but that doesn't usually work and I haven't been able to detect anything different that I might be doing in order to get it to work, so I can't repeat it. I tried changing the options to a three finger drag, which is what someone who was having the same problem recommended in a Mac forum. That allows me to drag it without difficulty but when I try to drop it, it still ends up opening it up instead. So I still haven't figured that out.

Another irritant is that whenever I hover the cursor over something, it opens it, so I have to pay close attention to where I put the cursor. Rather than simply moving the cursor to the side after typing something, I have to make sure it's not over anything that's actionable because I'll have things opened up that I don't want opened, such as ads on web sites. To be honest, I haven't looked for my options there yet because I was planning on curing the drag and drop problem first. There is probably an option to tell is not to open anything until I have double-clicked it or something.

Since I go back and forth between the iMac and the MacBook, using a trackpad for both, I'd like them to work the same.

 

One thing with Macs, which wasn't the case at all while I was using Windows, is that most updates either add something potentially useful or make the machine run faster and more efficiently. Some, of course, are security updates that don't do anything noticeable to the end user, and one update was not available for my otherwise perfectly functional 2008 MacBook. When I ran Windows, updates were almost always problematic, usually required expensive upgrades in programs, and often made the machine run less efficiently than before the update.

 

This is SO totally true ! Even though we have a perfectly fine Dell computer, neither Bobby or I ever even turn it on unless we need it for some reason, like syncing the iPads. It always needs a half hour (or more !) to do the updates before we can even use it when we do want to do that; so I have to go in way ahead of time, turn it on, and get everything updated and security ran and all of that stuff before I can even open up a webpage.
Once, we got some kind of a "bug" and it took most of the day to get rid of it.
With my Apple there is never ANY of these issues. No viruses, no endless updates, and the few updates that we get let you know they are there so you can download them at your own convenience, and not when you are trying to do something else.
You have successfully been using the same MacBook for over 8 years, with no issues, and I have never had any Windows computer that didn't need to be upgraded in much less time than that.
You have no idea how simple and yet capable a computer or a tablet can be until you have experienced one made by Apple, @Frank Sanoica !

 

I do not have a MacBook, @Joe Riley . But both Bobby and I have iPads that we have no problems with. My daughter and son (and his family) all have the big iMac computers, plus a MacAir, or maybe a MacBook, and their ipads and iPhones.
Oh, yes, they all have the Apple Watch , too.
Bobby and I just have the iPad and iPhone; but they are totally trouble free, and easy to do the updates when we do get one, which is actually not very often. I was just agreeing with what Ken was saying about the updates.

 

Mac updates are nearly always free, or very inexpensive too. That includes upgrades of Mac software too. Most of the developers of Mac software don't charge for upgrades, or might charge a very nominal fee for a major upgrade. There are some exceptions, but mostly in software that was first built for a Windows OS and adapted for Mac, as these will sometimes carry over the Windows pricing structures.