# Mac OSX & Apple 

The Operating System  of the many browsers you peruse. The convenient system. 

- [Monitor](https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Performance/Conceptual/power_efficiency_guidelines_osx/MonitoringEnergyUsage.html) the activity of your laptop through XCode 
- [BBEdit](obsidian://open?vault=Coding%20Tips&file=Computers%2FMac%20OS%20X%2FBBEdit) is a fantastic text editor and not even just that is entirely worth the learn. 
- Mac tips: get [Bike](https://www.hogbaysoftware.com/bike/) when you decide to upgrade to MacOS 11 
	- Also get Zen browser and kitty terminal
- [Eaglefiler](https://c-command.com/eaglefiler/) & [Tooth Fairy ](https://c-command.com/toothfairy/)
- there  are  certain things you must have XCode command line tools: 
	- you do not need to pay for this on the app store nor be part of the Apple Developer program as it usually comes bundled with the terminal and can check via ```gcc --version```

```Apple 
(base) gcc --version

Configured with: --prefix=/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX10.14.sdk/usr/include/c++/4.2.1

Apple LLVM version 10.0.1 (clang-1001.0.46.4)

Target: x86_64-apple-darwin18.7.0

Thread model: posix

InstalledDir: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin

(base)
```