New iMac -- Do I need to create a wired network connection?

I'm new to Macs so please bear with me. My new iMac is arriving in a few days, and I'm reading through the manual just to get a leg up for when it gets here. Page 11 of the user's guide explains how to set up an Ethernet connection, but the manual does not say anything about setting up a wireless network connection during initial setup. Will I be able to do that or will I need to create an Ethernet connection first, then set up the wireless?

The setup for wireless is the same. Open Network prefs, select the Airport port, click on Configure button. Check the box to show status in the menubar, then click on Advanced button and click on the TCP/IP tab. All you need to do is set the Configure IPv4 option for the Airport port to DHCP and then click on the Apply button.

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Gang,
I've just purchased a new iMac for myslef and am gifting my "old" iMac to Niece. Original iMac has Snow Leopard upgrade (came with Leopard) as well as Word for Mac -student addition. I also have an external backup drive and use Time Machine as specified.
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pshdawg1 wrote:
Gang,
I've just purchased a new iMac for myslef and am gifting my "old" iMac to Niece. Original iMac has Snow Leopard upgrade (came with Leopard) as well as Word for Mac -student addition. I also have an external backup drive and use Time Machine as specified.
Well I don't think your niece is going to rob you blind or sell your company secrets to the highest bidder, so a full 7x- 35x government grade overwrite and operating install is likely overkill.
Just likley some personal files, pictures and videos, stuff like that you want to make sure doesn't get seen.
My suggestion is to clean out your user level files manually in each of your Documents, Pictures etc folders, any bookmarks in browsers (reset Safari, clear cache) and emails you don't want carried on.
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http://www.titanium.free.fr/
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When this is done, OS X boots into the first "Welcome to OS X" video you saw when you first setup the machine. Of course you lose Word as that's not on the installer disk. But LibreOffice is free and much much better.
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pshdawg1 wrote:
Will I also need to de-authorixe audible for iTunes?
Your allowed up to 5 computers with your iTunes content, but you can deauthorize the computer in iTunes so it doesn't take one of your authorizations.
Also before you do anything, make a MANUAL backup of your data to another drive just in case Time Machine/Migration ***. etc doesn't screw the new pooch on you like it's been known to do.
I always c boot off the new installer disk on new machines and Disk Utility Erase with Zero option the entire boot drive then reinstall OS X, it's not that I'm paranoid, it's that drives are not checked for bad sectors at the factory, they just slap OS X on it and off it goes, problems appear later on as people use the drive or can't read the software correctly off the drive.
So I map off the bad sectors ahead of time, so the software is on good sectors and never have a post issue like others do with new machines.
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