How to Learn What's Inside Your Apple Computer

You are sitting in a coffee shop, drinking lattas and surfing the web on your Mac laptop. A fellow Apple fan sees your Pismo's Apple logo glowing from a distance and approaches you to discuss all things Mac. As much as you love your Pismo, you must confess you are not sure what your Macintosh laptop has under the hood. With the help of About This Mac, you can get to know any Apple computer or laptop better.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Apple Computer
• Mac OS 10.4

1. 
   about this mac

   Take your cursor to the upper left-hand corner of your Mac desktop, under the Apple logo, and select "About This Mac". You will see a similar box to this example, which details what version of Mac OS 10 you are running, what Processor is running in your Apple computer, and how much RAM memory is loaded into your Apple computer. This is very helpful knowledge when explaining to someone what is in your Apple computer.

2. 
   more info

   If you would like to see still more info on your Apple computer configuration, click on the "More Info" box. A list shows up that details many things like memory, hard drives, audio, usb and firewire port. The example shown here shows the details of the memory on my computer. It is helpful to know which memory slots holds which memory stick. In my Apple Computer's example, if I would want to ever upgrade my memory, I can see which slot holds the lower memory stick and replace it accordingly.

3. 
   contents menu

   You can also see what type of hard drive your Apple computer is using for your operating system by clicking on the ATA line in the Contents menu of About This Mac.

4. 
   apple computer information

   You can choose any word on the left-hand side of this box's menu to reveal more information on your Apple Computer.

Tips & Warnings

• Write down or take a screenshot of your Apple Computer's features from About This Mac. Keep this on file and use the list whenever you plan on getting the Apple Computer repaired.

Resources

• Apple Computer

[adrugay]

on 12/8/2008 Cool - love working on a Mac. Thanks!

[amylaine]

on 9/10/2008 Very interesting, great info.