I been using both Mac OS and Windows on a daily basis for years, After just a few days I was able to move between both relatively easy.
These more powerful machines are papering over the cracks of the very bloated software that Adobe produce. No doubt they are powerful machine and very reliable (except for that butterfly keyboard which was a nuisance a few years ago). I'm sure if Steve Jobs was still with us he would have transformed the laptop to a different level / experience.
One of the things I find dealing with beginners in photography is the difficulties they have transfering images from a memory card to a PC or Laptop and then further managing them. I'm been constantly been surprised that Apple haven't moved that phone / iPad experience to a Laptop to open a new audience to laptops. The two departments must not talk to each other at all. I've seen kids under 1 years of age managing to operate an iPad or an iPhone and yet at times I can't do simple things easily on a Mac. I'm on it a number of year now so its not really an issue anymore but I'm surprised often by its layout being even more unintuitive as Windows. I'd recommend you play with the dock settings, including magnification.Īs both a Windows and Mac user I've often been surprised by Mac OS system. If you go to system preferences you can customize that so it stays hidden until you move your cursor to that part of the screen. To quickly switch desktops, you just have to flick three fingers either to the left or right. You can click and drag windows from one desktop to another, and even set apps to only open in particular desktops. You can make as many of these as you want, via the plus sign on the right side of the screen. If you move your cursor to that top shelf, it'll expand and show a live preview of what's on your desktops. If you swipe up with three fingers, it'll show you all the windows, but there will also be a gray bar that drags down from the top of the screen. One other feature you may love - multiple desktops. You can also CMD+Tab like you'd Alt+Tab on Windows. There's a handful of gesture controls like that, and you can customize them in System Preferences -> Trackpad -> More Gestures.
This will show you all the instances of whatever application you're currently using. Lee Morris Regarding quickly cycling through application windows - place three fingers on the trackpad and drag them all down. Stay tuned for detailed testing of this machine over the coming weeks. As you probably know, I've had very bad experiences with dongles, adapters, and docks in the past, but I'm keeping an open mind. Next week I'm receiving over $1,600 in Thunderbolt docks to test this laptop with all of my peripherals. The software can be a bit frustrating, but I realize that many of my issues are due to my own ignorance, and with enough time, I can learn how to navigate macOS.Īll that being said, the real testing still hasn't begun. It has the best keyboard, trackpad, speakers, microphone, and monitor I've ever seen on any laptop. In summary, the laptop itself is the most impressive laptop from a hardware perspective I've ever used. I could write an entire book on my experience in the first 24 hours with this laptop, but instead, I'll point you to the video above to get a glimpse of how things are going. Will it be good enough for me to leave my custom-built desktop? I'm a Windows user, but I fell for the hype and purchased a $3,500 M1 Macbook Pro.