Making MacBook Air Bluetooth Connections

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Summary: Bluetooth allows your Apple MacBook Air laptop to wirelessly connect to other devices like your mouse. Learn how to use the Bluetooth feature on your laptop in this free video.

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"BRANDON KARON: The MacBook Air has a great multi-touch trackpad and a great keyboard, but some people like to be wireless and they want to wireless mouse or either a wireless keyboard. So you can use the built-in Bluetooth for different wireless devices. You don't have to have any wires, USB doohickeys sticking out the side or whatever. So if you wanted to set up this wireless mouse, you going to make sure it's on, batteries are put in. We can open up the system preferences, under the hardware tab we can select Bluetooth. Now here, I can set up a new device, the Bluetooth set up assistant will come up. It's very easy, very straightforward. Click continue and then you can choose different things to set up. You can hook up cellphone up to it because cellphones nowadays have Bluetooth, a keyboard mouse, a wireless Bluetooth printer, headsets, or any type of devices. Here we're going to do a mouse, we'll click continue, searching for mice, found one. We'll click continue and now it's going to pair it via Bluetooth. Give it a couple seconds and that's it. Now I have a wireless mouse and click quit and then I can click the system preferences and you're set, you're all set with Bluetooth."

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