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I moved from Windows to macOS for work — and I never want to go back (www.tomsguide.com)

submitted 1 year ago by tastypoobutt to c/apple_enthusiast

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[–] tastypoobutt 71 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

There’s no one standalone reason why I think macOS is better than Windows for productivity. Instead of a single killer blow, it’s death by a series of smaller wounds.

The only real way of describing it. So many little niceties from decades of attentiveness, even if things have been backsliding in recent years.

[–] octalfudge 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Fantastic description! This is an issue that made it difficult to justify to my management to allow them to allow Macs, but thankfully Apple Silicon was big enough of a game changer to sway the decision

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

This was the reason I switched to Mac for work related stuff, the performance is insane for most of the stuff I need it to do.

[–] Tinkering_simpleton 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly my case. Apple Silicon was a game changer in relation to performance against cost. Was able to replace my old top PC with a mac mini and improve my work on Adobe suite. Impressive. The ecosystem with my iPhone was also an amazing improvement. Airdrop is fantastic.

[–] instamat 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I haven’t used an apple silicon device yet but I understand they’re insane on battery and performance.

And airdrop is stupid useful in so many scenarios.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There’s a nice browser run and open source alternative to airdrop called Snapdrop. It uses web rtc to transmit data from device to device directly and can be self-hosted. I use it to transfer data between my Mac and my windows pc as well as my steam deck.

[–] instamat 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks! I will check that out. Does it transfer from iPhone to a windows pc too?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, every device I tested so far (apart from Netscape on windows 3.1)

[–] instamat 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s gonna be a no from me dawg, I fuck around exclusively in ‘scape. 🤣

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Why would anyone use Netscape if they can still use the much more traditional IBM WebExplorer

[–] Alperto 1 points 1 year ago

Same here. I’m an Apple user since 2008 but had a bad period in my life where I needed to squeeze every € and couldn’t afford a new Mac so I had to build myself a Hackintosh, which was ok at the beginning but missing a lot of things (the special connectivity between devices like airdrop or continuity) but now I’m recovered and bought a Mac Mini M2 and it’s like coming fully home again. No more random panics or wasting time diagnosing errors, and it’s incredibly fast. The jump in performance jumping from a Haswell CPU to a M2 in mind blowing and a joy to appreciate every time I use it

[–] tdawg 3 points 1 year ago

It just works. Something that can’t be said of how windows feels