An innocent thread about trading in my PC laptop for an Apple product caused quite a ruckus on my personal Facebook page earlier in July. Man, people have quite the opinions when it comes to what computer is best!
I was once a Mac girl. The first computer my family had growing up was a Mac. It was big, clunky and yellow and needed a hard disk to boot up.
Freshman year of college, I got my own personal computer – a Mac Classic II. It was almost as big as our family computer, and it was the computer that introduced the concept of email to me. I was 18. I loved my Mac.
I remember being personally offended – truly – when I got my first job out of college and they handed me a Windows-based laptop on my first day. What was this nonsense? I was supposed to conduct my work on this challenged piece of machinery? I definitely had some sort of Elitist Apple-owner nonsense going on back then.
Slowly over time, I became a PC girl simply because of work. Years of being on a PC and it became familiar and my norm. And every 2-3 years, I replaced my laptop like most laptop owners I know do.
But I got tired of the issues and decided, after almost 18 years, to switch back to a Macintosh for my laptop. To see if going back to a Mac would make a difference. I settled on the MacBook Air. (See my older related posts: Learning Curve with my MacBook Air {2 days after I got it} and for something really old, How I Did Not Marry the Man Who Set Up My Email in College)
As I said in my first post, there’s definitely been a little bit of a learning curve with getting adjusted to no right click or no scroll bar. But the Mac is totally customizable so I added in scroll bars in the settings and gave myself the right click function on my touchpad but adding one in.
I will say this – the more I use it and get used to it, the more I love it. It boots up before I can pour myself a cup of coffee, or even walk to the coffee pot. It shuts down in an instant. Stuff is super fast and everything is just so customizable! And I took it on a recent trip to New York City with me where I tucked it away in my tiny backpack, walked the entire city of Manhattan and wasn’t bothered by it at all. (Because it weighs all of a whopping 4 pounds.)
So two weeks in, was it worth the money? (Because it costs 3x what a PC-counterpart would cost). So far, hell yes. Stay tuned and I will let you know if I still feel that way in a few months time.
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