![]() ![]() I was fortunate enough to spend a few months with a 13-inch Touch Bar model recently. All this makes me feel that my days of relying on a Mac as my primary computing device could very well be numbered.ĭon’t get me wrong: The new MacBooks are, warts and all, great machines. Their behind-the-times configurations compared to what like-priced Windows laptops provide. Their insistence on USB-C while the whole world is still struggling to adapt to the new standard. It feels fresh and forward-looking compared to MacOS, which, for years, has favored uninspired, but stable incremental updates.Īlso, the latest MacBook Pros frustrate me: their impressive but, for the time being, unnecessary touch bars. I’ve found that Windows 10, once its quirks and annoyances have been wrestled into submission, is a great operating system. Watching movies, gaming, or multitasking on its gorgeous screen as I type on its keyboard or tap away at it in tablet mode is a joy. That said, my Surface Book is big, beautiful, and powerful. I’ve been able to get around some issues by relying on the iPad version of some of my missing apps while I lug around my Surface Book, but that’s less than ideal. Using a Windows 10 computer, for the time being, slows down my workflow dramatically. But there’s software that I use with MacOS that I can’t replace on Windows 10, and believe me, I’ve tried. There’s no denying that my 2015 MacBook Pro with Retina display is a lemon-it’s been in and out of the shop, given fresh installs and restored from Time Machine backups more times than I can count. But if I hadn’t accidentally stumbled across that utility, I’d likely still be attempting to customize my laptop’s settings. It is possible to take control of all of these things through an app like O&O Software’s ShutUp10. And don’t get me started on Windows 10’s privacy settings, automatic downloads and at-gunpoint incremental OS updates. The Start menu, full of shortcuts to useless apps, freemium games and come-ons to sign up for Microsoft 365, demands to be beaten into submission. After a week of trying to teach my fingers to use Windows-specific shortcut keys, I ended up remapping my Surface Book’s keyboard to be more like the one on my MacBook, so I could finally get some work done. Moving from a familiar operating system to a new one comes with a few growing pains, to say the least. If you hate tweaking your hardware Seamus Bellamy / IDG With this in mind, here are my thoughts on which Mac users should switch from using an Apple-branded computer, and who should stick with what they have. But in the end, they’re just as prone to failure as a Mac can be. Windows 10 is a great operating system, and there are a lot of great Windows PCs out there. This is a truth, no matter which operating system you use. The failure of an individual component could be enough to bring a whole system to its knees. What I’m saying here is that computers are complicated. I shipped it off and used my Mac for a week while I waited for a new one to arrive. Despite downloading the latest Windows updates, my machine’s old firmware had rendered it a paperweight. A victim of The Sleep of Death, according to a Microsoft tech. It plays games and handles my photo editing workflow beautifully-until it doesn’t. The Surface Book I’ve been using has twice the RAM, a discrete graphics card, and a zippier processor. ![]()
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