So, I recently inherited my kid’s 2017 MacBook, and I am really loving it. It is just a plain MacBook; not a Pro or Air; just a plain MacBook, and it weighs just 2 lbs. Very light, and it can do just about whatever I used to do on my Dell laptop. I love Dell and have been a PC person for years and still love PC’s. But since this MacBook became available, I decided to use it.I’ve always admired the look and solid feel of Apple products, so this was my chance to try it out.
I don’t do much media (photo / video editing) on this, and never did much on my old laptop, so I don’t need a whole lot of performance. If I can write some code and GIT push and deploy it, I am good. I also don’t need to compile huge programs on my machine at all. Plus, much of what I do these days, I do on virtual machines in the cloud anyway, so I just need to SSH into them and I am good.
I can’t think, at the moment, of what I can do on a PC laptop that I can’t do on this. Of course, there are a lot of software programs that are available on PC’s that are not available on Macs, but I don’t use anything these days that are only available on PC’s (I am increasingly depending on the cloud and FOSS).
The other major thing that makes this transition from a PC laptop to the MacBook easy is the Microsoft OneDrive. One great thing about my setup was that most of my important work files were in OneDrive, which was always synced between my desktop and laptop, so when I need to do work locally, it didn’t matter if I did it on my desktop (in my office) or the laptop (in the living room in front of the TV, or on the road). It turns out the MacBook OneDrive app works beautifully and seamlessly in syncing my Windows desktop files with the MacBook.
I am really digging this MacBook so much that if this ever has issues, I think I will upgrade to another MacBook; probably the MacBook Air, as performance is not so much an issue as much as lightness / portability for me.