jpellino

I've been an Apple customer for a long time, starting with the better experience with early Mac than early Windows (heck, it took how long for them to write a proper mouse driver?) and through a lot of iterations, with OS 9 and Win 2000, it was finally close to a toss-up.  Then a very tortured path to Win10.  Now it's Apple mostly because of the ecosystem - that there is a relatively stable flow between a phone, tablet and traditional-form computer.  Currently, I'm wary of iPadOS feature creep, especially when so many features are gesture based, with no visuals to guide you the way that graphical controls do.  Conversely, I find Windows on a Surface with touch to be the most intuitive way so far to use Windows, surprisingly responsive and sensible, very few surprises, limited somewhat by minuscule UI design elements that made the desktop interface pretty, but just get in the way of controls on a Surface screen.  I do think they're starting to suffer from Performa syndrome - too many models of what is basically the same device (OK, Apple is getting close with five iPads).  But I see this as Microsoft's game to lose.  

 

Update - getting the Photos converted and useful was under 30 min - adding all the new sort styles / layouts / finding dups is taking a few hours.  

Pretty smooth.  Worst part was waiting for the update servers to respond, after that popped up I hardwired the network to speed up the download.  "Setting Up" screen took ages, and posts online said OK to power cycle, so I did.  

This is a MacBook Pro 9,2 - so it's not the best candidate, but it's going well.  A few 32 bit things are being tossed.  QT7 is relegated to the Utilities folder - can't see tossing it if I need it on another machine.  

Mail database update is taking the longest time.  Music took 2 minutes, Photos is on track for about 30 min with 15,000+ photos.  

AppleTV is odd - need to poke around a bit more - purchased things seem to be in a menu rather than a screen button, but I'll look more closely.  

Some of the 32-bit warnings I was getting in Mojave were false alarms - Google Earth Pro and SmartBoard.  \

I'm impressed, given the hand wringing I saw with the beta.  This was the first beta I didn't do.  

SE is still the sweet spot.  For a phone.  

For a pocket computer / cinema camera  not so much. 

They had the late Bill Campbell, who was a great presence as coach and leader.  The Friday +beer meetings were pretty good too.