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Seven things to do first when a new Mac feels unusable
買完Mac 不會用？先做這7件事｜彼得森
About this video
Thirteen minutes built on one observation: a Mac is not harder than Windows, it is different, and the difference is concentrated in six places. The trackpad comes first because it is where the machine feels wrong to the touch, then the red-yellow-green window buttons, the shortcuts, switching input languages, Finder and Spotlight. The title promises seven and the description says six settings; the six are what the chapters actually contain. Published in April 2026, so the panes are the current ones.
The opening chapter is called “you are not the only one stuck”, which is the right place to begin for someone who has just unboxed a machine and cannot make it behave the way the last one did. From there the video spends its time on the places where the defaults feel wrong rather than on what the system can do.
The trackpad leads at 0:48. That ordering is the video’s best decision: it is the surface a new owner touches before reading anything, and the defaults Apple ships (tap to click off, natural scrolling, no three-finger drag) are the reason a MacBook can feel unresponsive in the first hour when it is working exactly as designed.
The window buttons get the longest section, from 2:56 to 7:02, and deserve it. On Windows a close button closes, a maximise button maximises and a minimise button minimises. Here the green button is full screen, or a zoom, or a tiling option depending on the version and on whether a modifier is held, and the video treats that as something to be explained rather than demonstrated.
Two of the six are audience-specific in a way worth naming. Switching between Chinese and English input at 8:15 is a chapter no English-language guide would include, and it is the item most likely to make a Traditional-Chinese user feel the machine is fighting them. Finder at 9:17 and Spotlight at 11:25 are the two places a Windows user’s file-and-search habits land, and the video ends at 12:31 by admitting the list is not complete rather than padding it to seven.
What it covers
- The trackpad is the first fix, not a setting to get to later — the video's premise is that the machine feels wrong to the touch before anything else is wrong.
- The red, yellow and green buttons get two and a half minutes, more than any other single item, because closing, minimising and full screen are three different things on a Mac.
- Input switching gets its own chapter, which is a Chinese-language audience's specific pain and the one item here a monoglot guide never mentions.
- Spotlight closes the settings and the video ends by saying the list is not exhaustive, rather than padding it to match the number in the title.
Chapters
Chapter times are the creator's own list, published in the video description.
Apps in this video
No app page is linked. Every chapter is a setting inside macOS — the trackpad, the window buttons, shortcuts, input sources, Finder, Spotlight — and no third-party app appears in the video or its description.