Chapter 19
When Good Mac Laptops Go Bad
IN THIS CHAPTER
Understanding why you can be a tech
Putting basic troubleshooting precepts to work
Using Mark’s Troubleshooting Tree
Getting help for your MacBook
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 to be 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 Catalina, both cohabitating on your ...
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