First day tips and tweaks for new MacBook owners

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Turn on tap-to-click
This one drives me absolutely crazy. Until you go into the System Preferences menu and follow the path: System Preferences>Trackpad>Point & Click, then check off the "Tap to click" checkbox, you have to physically press down on the touchpad to register a click. That's the opposite of how it works on a Windows PC, and one of the few times the Windows way is unquestionably better.