I was wrong.
In February, I wrote of the MacBook Air and Pro that "neither laptop has wowed me enough to stay away from the Microsoft Store just yet."
Fast-forward two months to yesterday, when I took the plunge and bought a MacBook Pro.
I think I'd be remiss if I didn't deliver a Mac mea culpa, or at the very least, an update letting you know that in fact I did go to the Microsoft Store. Several times. After looking far and wide for the perfect laptop for work and life, yesterday I ponied up and purchased a 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display (refurbished). Thanks to a 12-month financing plan, I'll be paying it out over the next year with zero percent interest.
"Welcome to Mac. It's amazing here," texted my best friend, a professor of graphic design in Miami who epitomizes everything that's wrong with Mac-lovers with her frequent refrain, "If Apple made a toaster, I would buy it."
My husband is the other extreme — a Microsoft-loving software architect who winces if he should happen to touch my iPhone 5S.
And somewhere between those two is me: happy to try out the next new iDevice, but knowing full well that Apple's advantage stems as much from excellent self-promotion as it does from true innovation.
What pushed me over the edge was the ecosystem. Multimedia apps for photo- and video-editing have driven me to own an iPhone and iPad. So I've already partially invested in the world of iTunes and apps. After considering several touchscreen laptops, and even the Surface Pro 2 (biggest problem: it doesn't work on your lap), I couldn't find a Windows offering that wowed me enough to justify the inconvenience of straddling both worlds.
If I were what Microsoft terms a "power user" — someone who deals in the dense world of spreadsheets and databases — my considerations would have been different. In that case, there's little doubt I'd be rocking out with the Windows ecosystem and all its Microsoft Excel and Access glory. But if I don't need 30 years of legacy features, why buy 30 years of legacy features? Same goes for if I were a PC gamer — I'd be all Windows, all the time.
But I think I'm like most people in that my three main considerations were battery life, portability and price. Whether it was Toshiba or Lenova or Dell, Apple won in every head-to-head matchup on those three fronts.
The cost-benefit analysis also included the fact that we're an Xbox One household. But Microsoft made that one easy for me: I have the SmartGlass app and my iPhone becomes a remote. My choice of laptop doesn't make a difference in that equation.
And there's the fact that I love being able to peruse the headlines early in the morning, save articles to my "reading list" and go through them at my leisure on any device later in the day. A ton of these little conveniences come with choosing one ecosystem and sticking with it. It's no longer a question of "which laptop is for me," but which world do I live in?
And much like when a person decides which town to live in and house to buy, you're not saying that other places are bad.
Circumstances led you there, and I just joined a little town of Mac.
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