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Macbook Air 13" 2018 - Audio Input
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1814755" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>@krs, the Apple decision to reduce or eliminate paper documentation was made by Steve Jobs. I think he was right about most manuals ending up in the trash bin, rather than being used. His original plan was to make a Mac so user friendly that you didn't need a manual, but he was also clever enough to know that at some point you might. So he moved the manuals on line and stopped the 'dead tree' approach. Today, for Mojave, you find the manual here: <a href="https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/welcome/mac" target="_blank">https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/welcome/mac</a> If you go there, note that there is a Table of Contents, and if you drill down you get to hot links to more detailed pages. And they have links to even more detailed information. Just about anything you might want in a manual is there. And there are manuals for all of the recent versions of OSX and macOS, so you can do the same research for them, too.</p><p></p><p>Want to learn about your new MBP? There is a manual for that. <a href="https://support.apple.com/mac/macbook-pro" target="_blank">https://support.apple.com/mac/macbook-pro</a></p><p></p><p>And two clicks from that page you get to this: <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236" target="_blank">https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236</a> ,</p><p></p><p>which has a ton of information about keyboard shortcuts to all kinds of things.</p><p></p><p>And although I've only been using Apple products for about ten years, the Option key and the top bar has always been, and remains, a very powerful combination. The analyzer you found is one of the results, but there are more worth exploring. And that Wireless Diagnostics feature is documented by Apple here: <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202663" target="_blank">https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202663</a> You may find some very interesting uses for that tool there.</p><p></p><p>Note something about all those links--they all point to one URL, <a href="https://support.apple.com" target="_blank">https://support.apple.com</a> And that is a tremendous resource.</p><p></p><p>Bottom line? It doesn't take luck, just a willingness to read what Apple publishes. But if those same pages and articles were in a dead tree manual, it would gather dust on the shelf and people would still complain about the lack of information.</p><p></p><p>BTW, your comment about the headphone jacks having had audio in capability in the past is exactly correct. And the tech specs at the time clearly indicated that, including the ToSLink capability. Which is how I found out about it back then. The removal of that capability is one of the things I don't like about what Apple did. But it's not super critical to me, and I have found ways to get audio in when I need to, so I'm still here. (That is how I found out about the folks at Sweetwater, BTW.)</p><p></p><p>Hope that helps some.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1814755, member: 396914"] @krs, the Apple decision to reduce or eliminate paper documentation was made by Steve Jobs. I think he was right about most manuals ending up in the trash bin, rather than being used. His original plan was to make a Mac so user friendly that you didn't need a manual, but he was also clever enough to know that at some point you might. So he moved the manuals on line and stopped the 'dead tree' approach. Today, for Mojave, you find the manual here: [url]https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/welcome/mac[/url] If you go there, note that there is a Table of Contents, and if you drill down you get to hot links to more detailed pages. And they have links to even more detailed information. Just about anything you might want in a manual is there. And there are manuals for all of the recent versions of OSX and macOS, so you can do the same research for them, too. Want to learn about your new MBP? There is a manual for that. [url]https://support.apple.com/mac/macbook-pro[/url] And two clicks from that page you get to this: [url]https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236[/url] , which has a ton of information about keyboard shortcuts to all kinds of things. And although I've only been using Apple products for about ten years, the Option key and the top bar has always been, and remains, a very powerful combination. The analyzer you found is one of the results, but there are more worth exploring. And that Wireless Diagnostics feature is documented by Apple here: [url]https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202663[/url] You may find some very interesting uses for that tool there. Note something about all those links--they all point to one URL, [URL]https://support.apple.com[/URL] And that is a tremendous resource. Bottom line? It doesn't take luck, just a willingness to read what Apple publishes. But if those same pages and articles were in a dead tree manual, it would gather dust on the shelf and people would still complain about the lack of information. BTW, your comment about the headphone jacks having had audio in capability in the past is exactly correct. And the tech specs at the time clearly indicated that, including the ToSLink capability. Which is how I found out about it back then. The removal of that capability is one of the things I don't like about what Apple did. But it's not super critical to me, and I have found ways to get audio in when I need to, so I'm still here. (That is how I found out about the folks at Sweetwater, BTW.) Hope that helps some. [/QUOTE]
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