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I offer my new employees a choice of a Mac or Windows laptop, most choose Macs but a few choose Windows. I have an IT provider that manages them. At home we’re all Apple, and there’s no real management needed.
AirDrop is great, the new Universal Control and Continuity are awesome. I love that I can drag-and-drop files from one computer to another, or copy some text on my phone and paste it on my Mac.
I’ll see how the new Lenovo PCs hold up. Spec wise and cost wise, they’re very close to the equivalent Mac (if Apppe had stuck with Intel chips). They’ve got fingerprint sensors for logging in, too (I have no idea who started that). But Apple now has a fingerprint sensor on the external keyboard, which is great for clamshell use with an external display. Of course, being fully Apole-ized is better still – I wake up and put on my Apple Watch, then unlocking my iPhone with my face unlocks the watch. Then the watch logs me in to my Macs for the whole day, lid open or closed. So yes, It Just Works.
Continuing this off-topic discussion ...
Similar story. I permanently moved to Apple in 1992 (PowerBook), then iPhone, iPad, Mac Mini, etc. at home - all while I worked for HP in software R&D for 37 years. Macs/iOS at home, Unix/PCs/Windows at work. I'm fluent in all three since the mid 1980s. At one point while working in Corporate Strategy / CTO organization, I penned a thought document about how the next HP machine I purchased would run MacOS.
It was never really about the hardware for me, it was about the software and ecosystem. All the things people warned that I wouldn't be able to do never mattered. And the things that I did worked much better and were well integrated. It. Just. Works.
As my extended family purchased PCs during that time, I became their "go to" technical support person, even long distance. I got tired of wasting my time on cheap hardware and Windows that regularly failed. I upgraded the immediate family, parents, and in laws to Apple and Macs. If they asked me what to buy, I told them Apple. Others followed suit. I don't think we've ever had an Apple device fail in all that time. Only support calls I get now are from my 91yo mother in law that never used a device until her husband passed away a few years ago. Its never the hardware or software and my wife can take care of most of her questions. The time savings alone over all these years easily made it worth the cost.
Macs are just as popular as Windows or Linux in the academic environment (university Computer Science department) I'm in now.