TIL the Apple TV Remote pairs with MacBooks for presentations and playback (support.apple.com)

This just seems to link to the front page of the macOS Tahoe user guide. I guess this information might be in there somewhere, but...

MacBooks have been using remotes since at least 2005. There was a cinema app on there you could use to watch movies and use the remote to control it. I think you could use it with Keynote when it first came out too.

I love this feature. There's this app, "Remote Buddy", that's lets you specify custom behavior for the various Apple Remote buttons. Since by default only a few of the buttons control anything.

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I knew this but had forgotten.

The first MacBook Pro included a remote in the box to control Front Row - a sort of proto-Apple TV app.

The old Apple remotes also worked together with the iPod dock. Great feature.