This MacBook Pro arrived. First time in my life, my primary computer became a Mac. <\/p>\n
For decades, there has been this teasing back-and-forth among us PC people and them Mac guys. The verbal jousting and teasing aside, I have always been a secret admirer for Mac. My choice of siding with the WinTel empire was based on a very practical reason: Microsoft Office. All Office software were several versions behind. I needed to get my work done efficiently and therefore would settle for the platform. Truth is, I have always been a Unix guy and the MacOS’s BSD base has always been a lure for me.<\/p>\n
How time has changed! I can do my Excel and Outlook on Mac not much differently than Windows. This took care of 90% of the issues. Most other things I do are on the Internet. All I have to switch to is Safari. When I brought up the terminal window and found my fingers still remembering the good old Unix commands, my conversion was completed (emacs!).<\/p>\n
First was the getting used to of the Mac keyboard: the “flower” key instead Windows. Pretty much everything I was used to on the Windows side has a Mac equivalent, just that they are slightly different and I would need to Google to find out “how to do xxx on a Mac.”<\/p>\n
The built-in “Spaces” was such a delight. I never understood why Windows did not implement virtual desktop. I was using Rooms in the early 90s and have been missing it ever since. The lack of true “delete” key is annoying, so I bought an external keyboard.<\/p>\n
Next was the practicing and getting used to of the “gestures”: multiple fingers going this and that way instead of using mouse and buttons that and this way. I got used to two-finger scrolling quite quickly.<\/p>\n
Ever since the NeXT days, Steve Jobs insisted making the better computers even at the price of customer needing to change behavior. For some reasons, I hated the transition from Windows 95, to newer versions. For Mac, I was willing to learn new tricks. I felt the new tricks were really better ways, instead of just different ones. This is probably the magic of Apple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This MacBook Pro arrived. First time in my life, my primary computer became a Mac. For decades, there has been this teasing back-and-forth among us PC people and them Mac guys. The verbal jousting and teasing aside, I have always … Continue reading