. The Setup Assistant When the Mac restarts after the installation, the first thing you experience is one of the most visually stunning post-installation OS startup movies in history | . The Setup Assistant When the Mac restarts after the installation the first thing you experience is one of the most visually stunning post-installation OS startup movies in history a flythrough of deep space accompanied by scooby-dooby music and a fancy parade of 3-D computergenerated translations of the word Welcome. Once Apple has quite finished showing off its multimedia prowess you arrive at a Welcome screen. Note You also hear a man s voice letting you know that if you re blind you can press Esc to hear audio guidance for setting up the Mac and learning you do so you re treated to a crash course in VoiceOver the screen-control screen-reading software described on Section . This by the way is the only time you ll be offered this tutorial so pay attention. Hint Here are the basics. Hold down the Control and Option keys and press the arrow keys to highlight different elements of the screen hearing them pronounced. When a new window opens press Control-Option-Shift-W to read the contents of the window. Press Control-Option-Space bar to click. Once again you re in for a click-through-the-screens experience this time with the aim of setting up your Mac s various options. After answering the questions on each screen click Continue. The number and sequence of information screens you ll encounter depend on whether you ve upgraded an existing Mac or started fresh but here are some of the possibilities Welcome. Click the name of the country you re in. Select Your Keyboard. Different countries require different keyboard layouts. For example if you choose the Canadian layout pressing the key on a . keyboard produces the 9 symbol. Click Continue. Do you already own a Mac If you choose Transfer my information from another Mac the installer will assist you in sucking all of your old programs files folders and settings from the old Mac to the new one. You have to help it however by connecting a FireWire cable between the two Macs and then restarting
