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So as you probably know, I recently made the transition from Windows to MacOSX. Having only used friends’ Macs, very infrequently and only first in late 2007, I managed to be convinced that ‘mac-is-best’ fairly quickly. Having used Windows for all these years (im going with since I was 8, so at least 14 years), there comes a time when you just get fed up with such a god-awful system.
For the last year and a half or so I have been desperately hoping for a system of reliability and simplicity to do the simple tasks that I need to do. Then problem after problem kept happening. Far too many scares; almost losing everything, not enough backups and too many complications with a terrible operating system.
Of course I did really enjoy being a Windows user before. In fact I despised Macs. But that was then I guess.
I was very young the time I used a Mac, and hated it ever since. It belonged to the parents of a friend in my street. Of course I had no idea what it was at the time, browsing around Wikipedia I think it was the Macintosh Classic or similar. I remember an air hockey game, that was fun.
Later in school from ‘97 to ‘98 we used Macs. They were terrible. It was Windows all the way.
But recently, as more more power and general ease of use is required, without things cocking-up so often a change had to be made.
My Macbook Pro arrived safely 2 weeks ago and in that time I have enjoyed learning how it all works. It’s certainly been quite a process to learn something so new and different. There are so many aspects that make it far superior to Windows. The greatest is that the user has to think a hell of a lot less when using a Mac. For me, important stuff is in two basic locations; System Preferences and Utilities. All accessible from the desktop, which remains clean and clutter-free.
It took some time to figure out the software to get, where to get it, how it install it, how to use it; then what not to use, remove some apps. With two 500gb external drives, one for Time Machine backups, the other for storage I’m feeling good. Having just in the last few days figured out my digital photography workflow as well as the applications I like, that coupled with my dual display for watching movies/tv shows or controlling iTunes (still don’t like it much) one one on one monitor while working on the other has made me very happy.
I have indeed been promoting the Mac life to everyone I know. I feel like a breathing cliché (took a while to find é, got it in the end), but yes I love it.
They are right about one thing also, it does come with added smugness.
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