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Using your computer’s sound features
Your Macintosh can play and record stereo sound from a variety of sources.
By connecting audio equipment to the sound input and sound output ports on
the computer, you can listen to or reproduce stereo sound. If it has an internal
CD-ROM player, your computer can also play and record sound from audio
compact discs (CDs).
For information on using Macintosh system software to choose audio input
and output options, record an alert sound, or play audio CDs, see the “Sound”
topic of Macintosh Guide, available in the Guide (h) menu.
The following table summarizes your computer’s sound ports and features.
If you want to do the following: Use this sound port or control:
Adjust the volume volume buttons
Connect a microphone sound input port (
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)
Connect headphones headphone jack (
f
)
Connect external speakers sound output port (
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)
Sound
input port
Sound
output port
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