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Forty-two settings to change on a new Mac, in one pass
新 Mac 到手一定要改的 42 個設定！不改真的難用
About this video
Fifteen minutes, forty-two settings, and a premise that is unusually honest for the genre: macOS ships defaults that are not the best choice, and someone who has moved through four machines knows which ones. Trackpad, Dock, menu bar, Finder, then two longer sections on speed and on comfort. Published in May 2026, so the panes are the current ones.
Twenty seconds per setting is what the format actually is, and the video does not pretend otherwise: this is a list to be paused, not a demonstration. What makes it usable is the grouping. The first four sections are panes — trackpad, Dock, menu bar, Finder — and they take ten of the fifteen minutes. The last two are not panes at all but intentions, “settings for speed” and “settings for comfort”, which is a better way to organise the leftovers than a fifth and sixth pane would be.
The trackpad section opening at 0:21 follows the same logic as most guides of this kind: it is the surface a new owner touches first and the one whose defaults are most likely to feel wrong. The Dock at 2:24 and the menu bar at 4:37 are where the “not the best choice” premise is easiest to defend — Apple’s defaults are tuned for a first-time user on a small screen, and both panes are cramped the moment a machine has a real workload.
Finder at 6:12 is the longest single section at nearly four minutes, which is right for the one built-in app people use without ever configuring. The two closing sections are where the video departs from the usual format: instead of listing more switches, it splits the remaining items by what they are for, and a viewer who only wants the machine to feel faster can start at 9:53.
The description states that the video contains no sponsorship, which is worth knowing in a format where the settings recommended are so often the ones the creator is paid to recommend.
What it covers
- The first four sections are the four panes a new Mac is most often left with untouched — trackpad, Dock, menu bar, Finder — and they take ten of the fifteen minutes.
- The last two sections are not panes but intentions: settings that make the machine faster, then settings that make it more comfortable to use.
- Forty-two items in fifteen minutes means about twenty seconds each, so this is a video to pause rather than watch.
- The description says the video contains no sponsorship, which matters for a format that usually sells the tools it recommends.
Chapters
Chapter times are the creator's own list, published in the video description.
Apps in this video
No app page is linked. Every one of the forty-two items is a switch inside macOS — trackpad, Dock, menu bar, Finder — and the video states in its description that it contains no sponsorship.