My mom just got the Retina Display, what is some stuff she must do?

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Shes a first time Mac Owner.


I recently became a mac owner by purchasing an Air last year, I love it. Can never go back to Windows because of it. I love apple, call me a fanboy if you will. I'll be getting an Ipad 3 in a few days, completing my apple ecosystem.

Anyway, I was trying to think of some stuff she should do to make her Mac experience even better.

1) First off, what are some things that really show off the retina display, wallpapers, movies, videos, etc.

2) What are some things she can do to make finding files and information easier, I know the macs automatically hide the library, which is annoying. Shes been a windows user all of her life (not by choice)

3) What are some apps she must have? Shes going to gell Pages, Numbers, and Keynotes for sure.

Shes an officer manager at a dental office and will be taking 12 hours at university. Plus she has a ton of CDs she would like to burn over, and wants to put all of her music on Itunes.

1. pictures really show off the display. a good point and shoot camera and DSLR will take pictures that look gorgeous on the display. even the iphone 4S's pictures look great on it. havent tried much in line of videos or movies yet.

2. Alfred from the Mac App Store. its free and perfect to find whatever you need. you can set it up the way you want.

3. im finishing up my last year at my university this year and pages, numbers, and keynote are just fine. ive used them for three years with no problems. for other apps it depends what else she likes but there are some great apps on the mac app store. they have a lot of good little time waster games to keep busy. Things 2 is a great task manager although it is kind of expensive at $50. if she likes card games solitaire and thirty one are fun. i also like plants vs zombies.


to burn the CD's she will need an external optical drive as the retina doesnt have one. depending how much music she has you probably wont need an external hard drive to store it. I have 1000 songs uncompressed Apple lossless taking up 25 GB. When she puts them on if they are ripped as AAC she could fit around 4000 AAC songs into 20 GB. If she wants movies and TV shows stored on the SSD that might require some external storage. 256 GB doesnt sound like a lot and i was weary of it at first but if you are not keeping video it goes a long way.

hope that helps a little