New Mac User With Questions

By Dawn 👩🏻‍🦯, 28 December, 2025

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Hello, All,
I hope you all are having a great holiday season! :-)

I received my first Mac for Christmas, and, I have some questions.

1. Is there anything that I should know/need to know as a new Mac user? (Tips, tricks, etc?)
2. Are there any resources, guides, etc that will be helpful for a new Mac user?
Are there any AppleVis-spicific resources that would be helpful for a first-time Mac user?

2. I'm looking to eventually get my Brailliant BIX. paired with my Mac. Is there anything I should know about using/pairing the Brailliant BIX. displays with a Mac?
3. Has much changed from the last update to 26? I ask, because, I keep seeing things talking about various aspects, and, it'll say something like Big Sur for instance.

I appreciate any help you can give. Thank you all so much!

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By mr grieves on Sunday, December 28, 2025 - 14:22

Have a look here: https://www.applevis.com/new-to-mac

Hopefully that will help. If you have any specific questions or things you are struggling with then please ask on here.

I'm not on the latest 26 yet. Big Sur was a few years ago - I think it was version 11, but then the version before 26 was 15 (also known as Sequoia). They only recently decided to use years as the numbers.