How to Accept the Truth
Added 2024-09-16 07:00:05 +0000 UTCI didn’t set out to have all this Apple hardware.
Actually, that’s not true. If you go back far enough, I did set out to get a Mac, and failed.
Please note: this doesn’t fall under the heading of a first world problem, because it is not, in any way, a problem. I am astonishingly lucky. But life still has its weird ironic quirks, and this is one of them.
Anyway, the first computer I used for anything other than games was a Mac at my high school, and it immediately clicked for me. For a few years, as far as I was concerned, the Mac was the only computer worth considering. DOS just made no sense to me. To my brain, it was like trying to do work on a combination lock.
The problem was that Macs were expensive, and I was broke.
I eventually got a good deal on a corporate surplus 386 PC running Windows 3.1, and that was Mac-like enough that I was able to get things done. That led to a series of PCs. Eventually, I had an Android smartphone and a Surface tablet to go with them, and I was perfectly happy with that arrangement.
Then, a couple years ago, I decided I wanted a small phone. Many of you may know, there was, at that time, exactly one small smartphone on the market that was worth buying: the iPhone Mini. (I say at that time, because even it has been discontinued.)
Then I wanted a smart watch that could monitor my heart activity (time is a bastard), and allow contactless payment. I had an iPhone, so the obvious answer was an Apple Watch.
Then my good Bluetooth headphones broke. You see where this is going.
Anyway, now all of my devices were made by Apple, EXCEPT for my desktop computer, which is not a Mac, the one thing I actually wanted, way back when. You see what I mean? Not a problem, but ironic.
(Note: that said, Microsoft Word is driving me a little nuts lately. It would take only a credible suggestion that it either runs more smoothly and reliable on Mac, or that Apple Pages is better and interoperates with Word change tracking and comments seamlessly to get me to give switching a shot.)
Comments
I’m on an iPhone mini 13 and am keeping it another year. But I went so far down the Apple hole I’ve even got a Vision Pro (which I like but nobody should buy one yet). It has got way more skin contact than any other Apple device. Just imagine that.
Kevin v
2024-09-18 22:44:33 +0000 UTCI was 100% PC until 2 jobs ago, when my boss had us all go Mac. I learned that Mac is more expensive, but that as far as laptops go it tends to last far longer (I can still use 10-year-old Mac laptops, which is laughable in the PC world). There are pros and cons regardless, but I'm mostly a Mac guy now, especially because I do web development using Linux which is native on Macs and not on PCs. All that being said, I find Pages kind of terrible; the formatting is a bear and has weird quirks, and it's hard to find and use some of the basic stuff you can rely on elsewhere. So I wouldn't switch for that. If anything, I'd start using Google Docs so everything is available everywhere, and you're not tied to a specific tech. (MS Office online is far, far worse then either in my opinion - slow and buggy.)
Tom Bisciglia
2024-09-17 20:27:53 +0000 UTC
