User's Guide

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Chapter 1 Ready, Set Up, Go
Step 3: Congure your MacBook Air with Setup Assistant.
ThersttimeyouturnonyourMacBookAir,SetupAssistantstarts.SetupAssistant
helps you enter your Internet information and set up a user account on your
MacBook Air. You can also migrate information from another Mac during setup.
Note: Ifyoudon’tuseSetupAssistanttotransferinformationwhenyourststartup
your MacBook Air, you can do it later using Migration Assistant. Go to the Applications
folder, open Utilities, and double-click Migration Assistant.
To set up your MacBook Air:
1 In the Setup Assistant, follow the onscreen instructions until you get to the “Do You
Already Own a Mac?” screen.
2 Do a basic setup or a setup with migration:
 To do a basic setup, select “Do not transfer my information now” and click Continue.
Follow the remaining prompts to select your wireless network, set up an account, and
exit Setup Assistant.
 To do a setup with migration, select the Mac you want to migrate information from.
You may have to update software if the other Mac doesn’t have Mac OS X
version 10.5.3 or later installed. Then go to page 15, “Migrating Information to Your
MacBook Air.”
Note: After you start Setup Assistant on your MacBook Air, you can leave it midprocess
without quitting, move to the other computer if you need to update its software, and
then return to your MacBook Air to complete the setup.