Sep 18, 03:11
Windows to Mac migration, not so cool
Being a designer gets you facing a Mac everyday, but that’s only when you’re squeezing your right brain. Come left brain work and I always jumped on my Thinkpads. Finally made a reasonable decision of shifting my Workspace & daily uses including personal computing to my tiny MacBook. Never thought it wouldn’t be smooth, believe it, it’s not cool at all.
While I’m very well versed with Mac computing, I could get around doing anything and everything, but data migration between my Outlook to Entourage was not cool at all, syncing with my Mobile wasn’t pleasant as well.
Missing the red cursor on my Thinkpad
While having a bluetooth mighty-mouse on the MacBook is nice, not having the nipple mouse pointing is a huge drawback—You can’t use the mouse w/o leaving the keyboard! Not so cool!
A piece of software that I still miss is my old Winamp. Itunes sounds bulky to my taste, its got everything, but not all that I need in my face.
Word isn’t so cool as it is in Windows, briefs, proposals and other documents have to go around and be accessible by PC users, a huge problem to address, and nah, PDF doesn’t solve the problem, online solutions are cool, but still, they ain’t Word.
I’ve used everything else in Macs for a long time, but never used a Mac as a personal assistant and as my productivity machine, it’s been challenging so far, facing many compatibility issues, and expecting more, did I take a practical decision or just because clients like to see a nice piece of hardware while presenting? I’ll find that out as I go, hoping for it to work out, I still miss the nipple pointer and not having to leave the keyboard to move the mouse pointer.
Beauty comes first?
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