Chapter 16. Giving Your Macintosh Multiple Personalities with User Accounts
The best way to accommodate multiple people who want to use a Macintosh is to buy everyone a separate Macintosh so they'll leave your computer alone. Unfortunately, it's not always practical to buy a separate computer for everyone, so you can do the next best thing and split your Macintosh into "multiple personalities" by creating user accounts instead.
When you divide a Macintosh into separate user accounts, each user can customize his or her account to make the Macintosh take on a different personality. One account might have a purple background with pictures of cats scattered on the screen, while another account might have a plain white background, for example.
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