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Apple users love to tell you it just works. But we found that if you look a

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bit closer, that's not quite true, and there's all kinds of excuses for why,

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but switching to macOS, at least for us, has been tough to say the least. We

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both found the desktop kind of unintuitive, found that it lacked

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obvious features, and there was a ton of software that we needed that just plain

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doesn't just work. We could not wait until the 30 days was up so we could

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ditch these turds. Why are you still using them then? It's been two months

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because if we're being honest, it's not really

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any worse than Windows and some aspects are clearly better. But with that said,

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I do believe that there's a lot that Apple could do to make the experience

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better. Not just for people like us that are relatively new to macOS, but also

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for the rest of their users. So, here is how our 30-day Apple challenge went and

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why 60 days later, we're both still on macOS, just like I'm still doing

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We want to kick things off with some aspects of our Mac journey that were

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just a breath of fresh air. Apple really does make a great first impression. The

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packaging was fantastic, both pretty and with no plastic to be seen, and macOS

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itself is well, by just about any measure, a great looking OS. The

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animations are nice and the design language is consistent. makes Windows

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feel like honestly kind of a mess in comparison. Yeah, and even as an Android

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user, I found a lot of value in AirDrop. I've never really had trouble sending

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files to myself. There are 100 different ways to do it. But being able to really

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quickly share stuff across Apple devices, like the prompter that we're

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reading this off of, has been amazing. I

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know you're already typing up a manifesto about how quick share on

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Android is just as good. But the sharing

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feature is only good as the user base and under 20% of our nerds in this

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office have even used it versus near universal awareness and usage of

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AirDrop. Touch ID setup was also super easy and because I grabbed an Apple

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Watch for the challenge, I was able to unlock my devices simply by wearing it

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near them. Even accounting for the nannying around altering system

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settings. Are you sure you want to do that? Are you really sure? I found that

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I needed my system PIN far less often to wake my system compared to my Windows

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devices. Not owning an Apple Watch, I definitely missed Face ID on Mac and

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like they have the space here in the freaking notch. But a cool workaround I

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found is the caffeinate command. You can go into the terminal, type caffeinate-d,

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and it will prevent the display from sleeping until the terminal window is

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closed. This was huge for reviewing videos, following recipes, and referring

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to instruction manuals where I might need to refer to torque specs for a

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bunch of bolts, but not want to touch my laptop with transmission oil on my

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hands. With the buttering up out of the way, I'm not going to lie, the initial

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few days was really difficult. And the first thing that made me want to huck my

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Mac at the wall was screenshot management. Compared to snipping tool on

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Windows, the macOS solution is just plain not as userfriendly. First, to get

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to it, you have to hit command shift 3,

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4, or 5, which is not as easy to

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remember as print screen. And then once you're in there, the tool itself is okay

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at best. It is okay, though. The thing that really bothered me though was that

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the share button gives you a whole bunch of great options. As long as you only

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want Apple options, when in practice, I

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nearly always want to share via Teams or Gmail, probably to a colleague. Also, by

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default, all of the screenshots just out onto your desktop, which is a nightmare

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for clutter. And that integrated markup tool is so bad. Tell me about it. Window

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management initially was a huge problem for me. Thankfully, the fix for the

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unnecessary borders is simple, but I still found the builting snapping to be

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lacking. After downloading tiles though and setting it up, this is fantastic. I

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do not miss fancy zones at all. And one thing that I just learned after over a

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month is that you can enable app expose on the trackpad, which can make things

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way easier than seeing literally everything in Mission Control. One thing

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that wasn't as easy to fix was getting this thing to output to my monitor

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correctly. I took your advice, by the way, and I ended up using my MacBook Air

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in docked mode rather than using my Mac Mini as a separate desktop. But what I

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found was that once I connected it, there was no obvious way to increase my

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refresh rate or to independently adjust scaling and resolution. Also, it would

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only scale correctly on my monitor if HDR was enabled. How does HDR change the

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output resolution? Now, Better Display Pro is there to give Mac users back the

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control that they need, but this is one of those classic cases on Mac of why do

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I need a third party tool for this. I thought it's supposed to just work. I do

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think we agree though that software quibbles aside, these laptops are

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fantastic. Oh, they really are. Even coming from Snapdragon on Windows,

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right, the battery life was incredible.

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down at my desk, giving it a little bit of juice every time I did that. And the

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way that that worked out for me is that over the last 2 months, I've done

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whatever I want on my laptop for however long I want, and I have never once

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worried about finding a wall outlet. That was honestly a pretty life-changing

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experience for me, and I can understand why, all other issues aside, people

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could be attracted to this. Also, in

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general, it's just a great machine. The screen, the keyboard, the trackpad, the

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speakers, even the performance, they've all been fantastic. And like, we can

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dunk on Apple all day for their overpriced upgrades to these machines.

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compelling. Now, I missed the return window on this. You probably saw the

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comments about that, guys. Our videos don't, you know, come out on exactly the

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days that things happen. But when they announced the new models, I wasn't even

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that mad. I still feel great about this

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machine for a,000 bucks. I do kind of

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wish that you got to use this MacBook Pro, though, because man is this thing

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ever good. It's everything that you just mentioned, but better in every way. The

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screen and speakers are among the best I have ever experienced on a laptop. Like

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1600 nits in HDR. That's crazy. Yeah, it

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is insane. I was able to work in direct sunlight with no problems at all. The

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battery hasn't been quite as good as the Snapdragon laptop that I had before.

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and I now have to have it plugged in. But as long as I don't Yeah, as long as

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I don't completely disregard it, it has been totally fine. We didn't put this in

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here, but can I complain about Mag Safe for a second? I freaking hate this thing, dude. It falls out all the time.

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Hey, Reese, can you throw those to me? Check this out.

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Uh, note how these are still white. You know how Apple ships their products in

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white, so the second you use them, they look like crap. They still look great,

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don't they? That's cuz I haven't touched them. They're so USBC, all the things.

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And also, if you use an angle grinder, all of the metal gets stuck in here and

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it's so hard to get out. I thought you

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were going to propose an angle grinder fix to your Mag Safe issues. I was going

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to be like, really, Alex? No. Coming back to the software, one thing that I

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thought was really cool was on top of continuity where you can copy paste

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between your machines and pick up where you left off in your browser. I was

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using an iPhone during the challenge and it was pretty great. You can even screen

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share your phone to your laptop now, which I loved, but also felt like was a

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bit of a missed opportunity. Like, can you imagine how awesome this feature

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would be if Apple finally made a MacBook

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with a touchcreen? Like I know they're

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not going to do it because

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reasons, but it would add yet another

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to machines that are already freaking great until you plug them into a

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monitor. Yeah, macOS on a laptop,

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fantastic. macOS on the desktop.

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Apple has clearly put so much thought and so much effort into delivering the

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best trackpad experience on the market. But then none of that translates to a

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traditional keyboard and mouse. Not only has Apple defied any and all feedback

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and designed what is possibly the worst mouse on the market, but they've taken

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it a step further and they've refused to support basic functions on the third

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party mice that users will obviously prefer. Actions like zooming in, quickly

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scrolling, and finding your open Windows. super easy on a trackpad and in

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Windows and on Linux and on Android, but

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on macOS, these crucial functions require you to use the keyboard or

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third-p partyy software. I even needed a silly third party application in order

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to get the back button on the side of my mouse to work in Safari. Like, guys,

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those back buttons have been standard on mice for as long as I've been eligible

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to vote. So, the 30s.

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And not every problem that we had could be fixed with a quick app download like

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the back button. My Wi-Fi was comparable to like earlier mobile Ryzen machines.

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And I mean that in the worst possible media tech kind of way. I'm talking slow

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handshakes, random disconnections, uh

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just general slowness for no good reason. Now, I do have the M2 MacBook

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Air because I bought it the wrong time, which does have an older Wi-Fi 6 card.

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And in fairness, most of the issues that I had were while I was traveling and

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using like rando hotspots. But from looking online, I am far from the only

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person having these issues with the M2. Meanwhile, on the updated M4 MacBook

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Pro, this has been possibly the best Wi-Fi experience I've ever had. and

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Bluetooth as well has been great. All of my internet problems have happened on

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the $10,000 Mac Pro that I use at my

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desk plugged in. What? Yeah. See, the

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Mac Pro, which again is 10 grand, uses a

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budget Aqua chipset for their 10 gig networking, which we have had loads of

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issues in this office for just on our Windows machine. And turns out it's just

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as bad on Mac. two to three times a day,

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my internet will just completely drop out. I'll go on to Wi-Fi and I can't be

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reviewing footage or even watching YouTube videos over that on that

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computer. Also, since I'm grossing, there seems to be a bug with

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multimonitor setups that causes waking from sleep to take forever. Like,

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actually, get up, fill my water bottle. Oh, back. Oh, wait. It's woken from

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sleep. Great. which is especially bizarre because the cold boot up time

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for these machines is like miraculously fast. It's way faster. Now, one thing

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that made me furious is that the first time you click on an application, you

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ever noticed this? Oh, and it doesn't seem to happen every time. No, every

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time. Is it every time? Okay, cuz I think I gaslit myself into thinking that

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it wasn't real. But the first time you click on an application, it just focuses

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on that application instead of actually

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putting the cursor into the field that you clicked on or actuating the button

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that you wanted to press. This has led to numerous times where I'll click a

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search bar or a message field and I'll start typing only to realize that I

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needed to click it again for the field to actually work. And look, I know this

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might not sound like a big deal, and for a lot of Apple users, it might not be,

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but I am not a fan of random extra clicks, and I believe that it is

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objectively bad design. One thing I did during this month that I wasn't planning

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on doing was switching over to Apple Music. Previously, I was using Tidal,

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but their Android Auto just completely stopped working. They did a bunch of

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layoffs and seems to be affecting them. But Apple Music might be the best

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example of everything that is good and bad with Apple allinone. First of all,

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the streaming, it's high quality and it is flawless. It works no matter where I

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am and I don't have random dropouts like I was having with Tidal and it even

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sounds better in my car. Really? That doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense at all. But I guess something to

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do with recompression or Well, who

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knows? I mean, AirPods sound better on Apple. So, if you're allowed to use

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their proprietary nonsense, maybe yeah,

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I don't know. Some sort of resampling. The problem that I've had with the app,

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though, is that it has design that is clearly dated back to iTunes and the

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original iPods. Like, it is super dated

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and there are so many confusing menus that can do totally different things

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depending on where you decide to click. And you can feel that in the whole OS. I

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found the security situation on Mac really interesting. Like on the one

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hand, even the thousand MacBook Air has

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security features that you would typically only get on way more expensive

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business Windows machines and they do a

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lot of really good things. They make you create a secure password for the device

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and they generally enforce good practices. But then on the other hand,

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it feels like Apple actively encourages users to throw their personal iCloud

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data and passwords onto that same laptop

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without much regard for whether it's for personal use or for work use. Yeah, on

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Windows it's super easy to have a work Chrome and a personal Chrome so that I

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can keep my professional algorithm and my personal algorithm separate. on the

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subject of gaming. Yes. Which I assume is, you know, well, maybe part of both

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of them, but any I didn't. I just didn't. I know that you

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can game on a Mac. And in fairness to Apple, the library of games that you can

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play natively is growing all the time, and you aren't even limited to that. You

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can run games that are Windows exclusive by using software like Parallels. It's

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just that a I've been really busy and b

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I just didn't feel like dealing with the compatibility issues. I don't game on my

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laptop much anyway. How nice for you.

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Unfortunately for me, one program that I need for my job is exclusively available

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on Windows. That is Solid Works. So, I needed a VM. At first, I tried UTM,

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which is super easy to use and great for anyone that just needs to run something

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simple in Windows, but it does not support GPU pass through yet. So, Solid

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Works and the games that I wanted to run, well, they didn't run after that

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failure. Thanks for the Parallels license. It was $100, but that entry fee

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was well worth it. Parallels is the best

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VM solution that I have ever seen. The setup is super simple. The GPU pass

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through just worked and although there is a bit of lag that I found, it was

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totally fine for Solid Works, but not

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quite good enough for gaming in my opinion. During my time on Mac, I only

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really tested two games. Boltro worked

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perfectly. I mean, I would expect it would, keeping me entertained on a

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flight. But other games that you would expect to work, like UFO50, a game that

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is literally designed to run on 30-year-old hardware, would not even

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launch. I attempted to run it over Steam Link, but lag spikes would make that

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unpleasant. And the lack of responsiveness in Parallels, maybe just

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decide not to play that game until I get a Windows laptop again. I know there

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will probably be a bunch of people in the comments saying, "Oh, I run games

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fine on Parallels and it's great." I am a professional electronics nitpicker and

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I have found the latency just a bit immersionbreaking. Now, to be clear,

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just because he's fussy doesn't mean that it should be a deal breakaker for

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everyone by any means, but we just want people to know that if you're planning

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to pick up a MacBook for long-term use and gaming is a priority. We just

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recommend making sure that your must plays are macOS native or that you are

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not that fussy about input latency.

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Bottom line then, I can't say enough good things about my MacBook. I just

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can't say quite the same about MacOSS. I

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mean, it's not that my frustrations are any worse than the frustrations that I

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have for Windows or Android or iOS or

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anything else. It's just that the argument that it's a smooth just works

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experience is objectively false because

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it requires just as much faffing about

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and tinkering with third party applications and digging into settings

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as anything else. When I changed natural scrolling to disabled for my mouse, it

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turned it off for my trackpad. Can you not have different settings for natural

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scrolling for a trackpad and a mouse? How is that even possible? And what

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really makes me mad about it is it's the kind of thing that if Apple could just

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budget a couple of shots of espresso to one of their many talented developers,

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it could be probably fixed in an afternoon. And it highlights a major

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issue for me. I just think it's very clear where Apple's priorities have been

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over the last 15 years. And macOS isn't

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very high up there, which could explain some of this rod. Now, Apple could

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change this. They have an entire product stack that now uses Apple silicon.

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There's very little hardware reasons that the iPad could not just flip

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between iPad OS and macOS mode, making

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it an incredible do all machine. But

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after spending the last couple of months on macOS, it is very clear to me that

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that is a pipe dream. Me too. And right after this video, Apple did just that,

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making it even more clear that macOS is

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the past and iPad OS is the future. It

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doesn't have to be that way, but that uh

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30% commission on every app means that Apple has decided it will be that way.

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So, with that in mind, are you going

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back to Windows? Well, for the entire 30 days that we had this, I swore that on

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March 6th, I would be getting rid of this the first second that I could. It

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is now April the 9th. Yep. I have not bothered yet at all. And yeah, that is

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kind of the thing these days. The operating system plays such a small role

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in the computing experience. Like I don't use my operating system. I use my

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applications, many of which are just a web browser. And as long as the OS is

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able to just get out of my way for the most part, it doesn't even matter which

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one I'm using. It's just like, man, it would be so easy for Apple to make Mac

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OS amazing. And it sucks that they don't

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seem to care enough to do it. There's an

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update for our switching to Apple video. Oh, for one thing,

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this is still in my backpack still. Still, but Okay, I switched by now.

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Wait, what about second MacBook Pro? I

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bought this with my own money.

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I have not purchased a laptop in like eight years.

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I opened this piece of crap up, this Windows garbage. The driver update

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literally failed. Bricked it. It took me like 2 hours to get it. And I was just

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like, "Fuck this." And ordered a MacBook.

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I can't think of many people on staff who in the past were more adamantly

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anti-Mac than this man. parallels

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Windows on ARM. They have fixed so much stuff. I can run Solid Works on this

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better than I can run it on this

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or this. And the screen

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is like nothing else. Have you seen the Labs results for the HDR on this? No, I

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haven't yet. It's insane. Well, I've seen what it looks like. Yeah.

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guys enjoyed this video, maybe check out part one where we went through the

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process of choosing our Max. It ended up being a really interesting experience

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that as an Apple outsider was more

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complicated and nuanced than I expected. Yeah.