Mac book is the newest version of a laptop. You can say that it’s the advanced version of a laptop. Many Mac books are invented this one is the most advanced. Mac book is basically the laptop-like computer that is manufactured or invented by Apple Inc. Just like any other laptop, it comes with a fitted keyboard of full size and an aluminum case with a light weighted structure.
As laptops have many models with different sizes, features, or structures. Just like Mac books have different model sizes with screens inches of 11.6 inches and 13.3 inches. It has a quality that all models of mac book air use the powerful processor of Intel like Core i5 or Core i7 campus. The airline feature of mac book is an improvement of preceding Mac books which are also invented by Apple Inc.
Mac book Air is basically a line of ultrabook computers that are all developed or invented by Apple Inc. As we all know that each laptop or computer comes with a CD or DVD drive. But for mac book users have to install the software of the disc or the programs using a remote disc in the mac book. Mac book Air can also connect to the internet through a WiFi device or Ethernet connection. But for a WiFi connection optical USB Ethernet adaptor is compulsory. If we talk about the battery timing then the 11-inch mac book air battery can stay up to 9 hours. While the 13-inch mac book air can go up to 12 hours without charging, this is an estimation of Apple company.
So basically what is mac book air? It is an Apple portable laptop model. And It has a slim design. It has a wide LCD screen available which is about 13.6 inches. And It has MagSafe, an M2 chip, and a total storage space of about 24GB. It is considered the smallest laptop. So there is a difference between the Mac book and the laptop. The main difference between these two is that mac book is compatible with macOS. Which is introduced by Apple OS whereas Laptop is compatible with Microsoft Windows?
So while talking about its specifications another question rise For what purpose mac book is used? It is used for many purposes like you having access to edit pictures and videos. And also having the ability to share your videos, you can create presentations, and enjoy listening to music, movies books, etc.
Some of the advantages of the Mac book Air include its excellent battery life. Its good value which is specifically for Mac books, its improved performance, and a built-in metal design that is portable. It has a high-quality keyboard, and touchpad and has a multi-color display available. And It has high quality 1080p webcam available and an attention-grabbing LCD display. It has excellent audio performance. Besides these advantages, there are some disadvantages which include limited software support, poor gaming, lack of ports, storage limitations, and hardware upgrade limitations. It is expensive.
How To Reset The Macbook Air?
This article is all about the mac book Air and how to reset the whole mac book to the factory setting. This can be only done if you are facing some performance issues. Or you are selling your device and you want to clean the device from your all stuff in it. This reset is only done for the performance issue or for clearance. It doesn’t have any other purpose. But for resetting the mac book air you can’t just press the reset button and all things will be reset. You have to perform all the things like logging out of accounts, creating backups, and all other things.
Before selling your device it is important to empty it from all of your personal stuff. Resetting the device will delete all the personnel. Or other things available in your Mac book or this also cleans the junk files. If you do the backup with a time machine. And then do the factory reset this will be like you get a new mac book air and you haven’t used it once. This backup and resting will make your device a new one.
If you are a mac book user and now you are selling your mac book Air. If your device is not working properly you can do a backup or factory reset. And if you don’t know the process of resting we will guide you through this process in a coming article.
Backing Up With Time Machine:
In many other devices, we can do the backup by just clicking the backup option in the setting of our device and saving our data but in mac book, air time machine, or other external hard drive is used to do the backup of our data present in the device. You can also buy a new external hard drive if you don’t have one because for mac book air external hard drive is very important.
Apple company also offers some of the best external hardware like an airport time capsule, which is specifically manufactured for time machine backups. Other than that there are many other external hard drives available in the market which are good for use and also have very reasonable prices. You can also get some recommendations from any Apple user so that you won’t buy the wrong one for your mac book air.
For doing the backup with a time machine follow the following steps given below:
Attach your external hard drive to your computer by plugging it into the computer.
On your mac book Air open the time machine application ( which can be available in system preferences or in Launchpad).
Choose the external device from the selected backup device.
Select use disk.
This will save your hard drive as your time machine backup drive.
On the time machine menu choose the back up now option to do the quick backup immediately.
You can also choose what you want to back up and what you don’t want from the options button inside the system preferences in the time machine option.
After following these steps correctly and finishing the backup now eject your external hard drive carefully be careful about removing the hard drive don’t remove it from your computer when the backup is working this will interfere with your backup and stop your information from backing up to your external hard drive so eject it after completing the backup process. Eject your external hard drive before unplugging the drive.
To Eject That External Hard Drive Properly :
Open the finder option and select the name of the device you have connected and click on the eject option. if your mac book doesn’t allow you to do this it might be the reason that your back p is not complete yet so wait for a while and after that eject your device.
Factory Resetting Mac Book Air:
After you are done with backing up all the data or information from your computer to any safe hard drive you can go to the factory resetting of your ac book air. If you are having any issues with your mac book air, resetting it will solve many of your issues in just a click and enhance the performance of our device.
It’s a general thing that resetting any device will increase its device because all the junk data which were stopping your device to work properly will be now deleted from the device and now its speed has increased as compared to before. though it’s used to clear all the junk or unnecessary file and give your mac book air a new look it also is useful at the time when you are selling your device and now you want to delete all of the data available in your mac book air. You can’t just delete each and every thing individually, you have the option of resetting to completely delete everything at once.
In all the Mac devices, they have the inbuilt recovery disk utility known as MacOS which helps to erase and reinstall the operating system of Mac. You can also re-download from the inside boot display of your Mac.
If your device does not have the inbuilt MacOS you can also download it from the Mac app store on your mac book air. We are going to discuss the process of how to reset the mac book Air easily:
On your Mac book display hit the Apple button on the top left corner.
Select the Restart option from the drop-down menu and now be ready to press some of the keys on your keyboard.
When the Apple logo reappears on your Mac book air display, press and hold down the command +R on your keyboard. don’t let the buttons go until you see the macOS Utilities window appear on your display. ( you can also reinstall the macOS over your current file system).
For factory resetting your device, click disk utility at the bottom of the list.
Locate and select the mac book Air’s startup disk on the left-hand side of the options.
Select the erase button inside the disk utility.
Select the format pop-up window and choose Mac OS Extended.
Name for reformatted disk and click erase to confirm the erasure.
After completing these steps now you will see the window which is showing the ongoing erasing process of your computer. When this process is completed your computer is now completely wiped but there is something else you also have to do.
After erasure of everything, now your mac book air does not have an operating system that’s means you have to download the whole operating system of your device whether you are selling it or just reformatting the device for better performance of it.
Reinstalling macOS On Your Mac Book Air:
Quit out from the utility disk because now you don’t have any work to do there on your newly made mac book Air.
Select reinstall macOS from the list of macOS utilities and follow the prompts to reinstall the newest updated version of macOS.
It will ask you to choose the disk you want to install and select the default drive because most mac books airs have one storage drive built into their system.
When you choose the install, they will ask you for some permissions, if you give them a permit download will start.
The download will take some time if you have the slowest internet connection.
After finishing of macOS download, you may need to start the installation manually by accepting the installation on your computer. Once the installation has finished, your computer will automatically restart and boot into macOS welcome screen.
Restoring The Backup From Time Machine:
After you are done with the reformatting of your Mac drive. Now you have to restore all the data from the external hard drive using time machine backup to its original place in your computer. You have to follow the following steps to do the restoring of your backup with the time machine:
Open p the time machine, either from your dock or by clicking the Apple icon on the top left of the display.
Select the system preference and select the time machine.
When your external hard drive is plugged into your mac book air, use the time machine to browse through the file to find the data you want to restore.
When you select the data or documents you want to restore hit the restore button to restore them back to your device.
Final Words:
This article was mostly about the resetting of mac book air for any purpose whether you are doing it to sell your mac book air or you are doing it for better performance of your device. By reading this article you will get the idea about the mac book air and how to back up the data before formatting your device.
This article will give you the details of every step used in the formatting or backing up of the data in your mac book air. I hope this article will clear the confusion you are facing.
