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My last six laptops have all been named after Luke Skywalker’s T-16 Skyhopper (so I’ve creatively gone with Skyhopper, Skyhopper2, and up to Skyhopper6 🙃). Though I like the convenience of unlocking my computer with my watch, I opt not to do so because if I’m near the machine and one of my kids gets curious or accidentally wakes up the machine, I don’t want them to interrupt my work.įor the longest time and for fun, I’ve named my machines and hardware after various places in Star Wars.When it comes to using Mission Control, I group all of the windows by applications.I usually start off nuclear with notifications and turn them all off and gradually add them back on based on what’s truly useful.I have a few others for third-party apps, but since those tend to come and go, I’m not going to bother sharing them here. In the sidebar, the factory widgets I use are Photos, Calendar, Weather, Reminders, and Top Stories.I don’t bother hiding the menu bar at the top because I find myself using the menu bar and the click and system tray more than not.I dislike the genie effect so I have it set to scale all of the applications down upon minimization.I set the dock to the bottom of the screen but set it to automatically hide.That is so say, if you’re looking for some type of scientific or even anecdotal evidence as to why I do this, I don’t have anything to share. It’s purely personal preference. There’s no rationale behind many of these other than I like them (and I like them because they help me get stuff done). Personal PreferenceĪfter that, I run down the usual list of things that I like to customize to to my preferences. Next, I open the Mac App Store and update any software that’s installed on the machine that has outstanding update.

Since it’s been about four years since I’ve written anything like this, now’s a good time to document my current set up both for reference and to share with the rest of you who find this kind of stuff interesting.Īside from taking the machine out of the box and turning it on, the very first thing I do is update all of the existing software.įirst, I run a System Update to get the latest version of the operating system.

Though I shifted much of my work to a Mac Mini in 2018, I’m now using a 2021 16″ MacBook Pro as my primary machine. The last time I wrote anything about setting up a new machine was in 2017 and it was specifically for a MacBook Pro and WordPress development. TL DR: Here’s how I set up my 2021 MacBook Pro along with links to all the software and the method by which I install them (either via the Mac App Store, Homebrew, or Direct Downloads).