Mac to the Big Apple
Many people swear loyalty to a brand or camp. I used to be one of them; now I just want to use what is fun to use.
I have dorked around with tech for a long time. A long, long time. How long, you ask?
I remember using Windows 1. :)
That probably makes me old. According to carbon-dating (and my kid), it’s true.
For maybe 30 years or so (I started young), I used Windows. I was in the “Microsoft camp”.
- I remember being all Xs and Os for Windows XP.
- The disappointment of Vista.
- The joy of finally updating to Windows 8 (yay! Not vista!)
- Windows 10
- Windows 11
- Windows who-knows-what now.
I remember word processing before Microsoft Word. Anyone remember Word Perfect? With the blue screen? Ahhhh, I do! (I would have written the terrible puns above on a blue screen.
Back in the day, using a computer was fun! Learning how to make a really basic (and ugly) website in a notepad was fun!
CSS was a bit hard to get into, but before I really understood it, I intuitively knew it would be important.
Mac vs. Windows
During my time in Windows-land, I used to hear people say over and over “Graphic and Web Designers use Mac products. They’re better for that.”
I wasn’t buying that argument. Besides, Mac products, as beautiful as they are, are ….more expensive.
And as technology advanced, Windows really did close the gap on Macs for the type of Web Design that I like.
That Magic Moment
The magic moment came when, after years of working on HP laptop computers (the last one being a HP Pavilion Gaming PC), I started to look at how Macs compared. But this time, not through the eyes of “designers use Macs” but rather “which one is a better purchase?”
This was exactly the same time Apple began the transition to their M-series processors.
It took me a while to really understand how an 8-core M1 processor compared to an Intel processor.
“Really? More cores, but uses much less power?!?” I asked myself.
This was 2020. Other things were happening in the world at this time, if I recall correctly.
But in my little world, I made the jump from Windows to Mac, after over 30 years of Windows world.
Not because it was better for my work. Or design. Or status. That’s all a bunch of crap. I wen’t that route because it just felt like the better decision.
And, along the way, using a computer became fun again. The joy of discovering a new way to do what I already knew.
So much fun. Which makes me a nerd, I guess. :)
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