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What to change on a new MacBook, and what to install on it

購買Macbook之後,一定要改變的設置 & 必裝軟件!(2024最新)feat. 隱藏功能 |大耳朵TV

大耳朵TVRecommendation14:09Dec 25, 2023266.7K views, read Nov 10, 2026

About this video

A settings pass and an app pass in one fourteen-minute video: menu bar, widgets, Dock, Stage Manager, hot corners, desktop stacks, Finder and the trackpad get changed one after another, and then two third-party apps are installed — TopNotch for the notch and CrossOver for Windows software. Published on Christmas Day 2023, so the panes it walks through are Sonoma's.

Fourteen minutes that do two things in sequence, and the seam between them is visible in the chapter list. Up to 9:55 the video is entirely settings — menu bar, widgets, Dock, Stage Manager, hot corners, desktop stacks, Finder, trackpad, Stickies — and then at 10:25 it stops being about macOS and starts installing software.

The first half is ordered by what a new owner notices, not by where the settings live. The menu bar comes first at 0:32 because it is the strip a switcher reads constantly and cannot customise from habit; the Dock follows at 4:47, then Stage Manager at 5:24, which is a window-management mode rather than a preference and gets treated as its own subject. Hot corners at 6:16 and desktop stacks at 6:49 are both thirty-second chapters, which is roughly the right length for two features that either suit someone or do not.

The app half is the reason this is filed as a recommendation rather than a guide. TopNotch at 2:10 is placed inside the menu-bar section because it changes what the notch does, and CrossOver at 10:25 gets three minutes — the longest stretch after the opening — because running Windows software is the one thing a Mac cannot do on its own, and the video treats it as the answer to a switcher’s last objection.

Neither app has a page on Nuanyue, so nothing is linked from this record. The video is dated 2024 in its own title and was published on Christmas Day 2023, which puts the settings tour on Sonoma.

What it covers

  • The settings are ordered by what a new owner sees first — menu bar, widgets, Dock — rather than by which pane they live in.
  • Two third-party apps are installed in the middle of a settings video, and both are named in the description with a link: TopNotch and CrossOver.
  • Stage Manager and desktop stacks each get their own chapter, which is the video taking a position on two features most settings guides skip.
  • CrossOver gets the longest single section after the opening, three minutes from 10:25, because running Windows software is the one thing a switcher cannot do with macOS alone.

System Settingsmenu barDockStage ManagerFindertrackpad

Chapters

Chapter times are the creator's own list, published in the video description.

Apps in this video

No app page is linked. The video names two third-party apps — TopNotch and CrossOver — and neither has a page on Nuanyue, so the list stays empty rather than pointing at nothing.