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MacBook For Dummies, 7th Edition
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MacBook For Dummies, 7th Edition

by Mark L. Chambers
November 2017
Beginner
432 pages
10h 37m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 19

When Good Mac Laptops Go Bad

IN THIS CHAPTER

check Avoiding the blame (righteously)

check Putting basic troubleshooting precepts to work

check Using Mark’s Troubleshooting Tree

check Getting help for your MacBook

check Running Windows — yes, Windows — on your MacBook

I wish you weren’t reading this chapter.

Because you are, I can only surmise that you’re having trouble with your MacBook, and that it needs fixing. (The other possibility — that you just like reading about solving computer problems — is more attractive but somewhat more problematic.)

Consider this chapter a crash course in the logical puzzle that is computer troubleshooting: the art of finding out What Needs Fixing. I tell you what to do when you just plain can’t solve the problem yourself.

And then? I expose the BKS (Best Kept Secret) about your MacBook – the feature that many MacBook owners have never heard of, and would never imagine. I’ll demonstrate how you can run Windows alongside macOS High Sierra … both cohabitating on your Mac ...

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