Compare These. The Good The inventive Touch Bar streamlines work and saves clicks, and Apple has improved almost every part of the thinner, lighter MacBook Pro, including a larger touchpad, faster components and a flatter keyboard. iPhone's Touch ID is handy on the Mac, too.
Part of the Personal computing glossary: In the Apple OS X operating system , the dock is a user-modifiable row of function or application icon s that appear on the computer desktop so that the user can find and select any of them quickly.
Splash screen. Alternatively referred to as a boot screen, boot skin, or welcome screen. The splash screen is an introduction page that is displayed as a program or computer is loading or booting. For example, when a Microsoft Windows computer is starting up, there is a Windows splash screen that is displayed while Windows is loading. Typically the splash screen can include a logo or other image, as well as a company name, and sometimes the company's slogan. In the picture below, is an example of what the BIOS splash screen for a Dell computer that appears when the computer is booting.