I’m feeling lonely

Hello, I’m a Mac! …

… user since 2002. My first Mac was an iBook G3. At that time I had some generous folks around me, because I wasn’t frugal enough to buy one by myself. The Think Different campaign just fit into my overall attitude, and I finally switched (loved that B&W photo of a dancer). Before that I used Linux and several BSD flavors (with FreeBSD being my favorite one until today). Even before that I was an Amiga user. I had several touching points with DOS, Windows 3.11, Windows 95, and Windows 98, but after that I mostly lost track.

I’m a sucker for Apple products. Most probably you’ll find at least one Apple product from each category at my home.

I've been a Mac user between 2007 and 2015, and once more as of two weeks ago. When I stopped, Apple simply didn't build a machine powerful enough to do my PhD work, so I jumped ship. Then it was gaming that kept me from buying a Mac. But between the Steam Deck and XBox Cloud Streaming, that need is no longer on my main computer. For everything else, the M1 is a fantastic platform, that actually outperforms my now-neglected gaming PC for image editing.

My only Mac experience is a Macbook Pro 17" (from maybe 2007?) with a Core 2 Duo and the cute magnetic power supply connector. It's a hefty beast and gets nice and warm in use. I inherited it from my late aunt who was a pensioner art student and liked to follow the trends. I've updated the HDD to SSD and expanded the Ram and updated the OS to the latest version it can run. It's interesting exploring the differences between the Apple approach and PCs, but I got to say that Mac fans do over-egg the benefits a bit. It's nice, but in reality just swaps one set of irritations for another set. I've found my spiritual home with Ubuntu Linux these days, but I've got machines running win 7, Win 10, Win 11, Ubuntu, Chrome OS, and open source Chromium as well as the Mac.

It's quite fun playing with all the variations on doing exactly the same thing!

Hello. Mac user since 2005 I think. I'm running some older gear with good success so far. I use Capture One Pro for my RAW conversions.

Been dabbling with Macs since the '90s, and RiscOS before that, and then some DOS, which I never liked, nor the earlier versions of Windows.

Fairly fluent with Macs, but I have stopped at Big Sur as my machine (six years old) seems to work very well with that OS version.

My portable is a Surface 4 which, at last, works very well again (it didn't take kindly to the latest Windows 10 upgrade).

I've never owned a Windows machine. I'm mainly using a M1 MacBook Air these days, it's surprisingly smooth for the limited specs.

Also a Mac owner. Business wise (many, many years ago) we were all equipped with Macs, as we could take them to clients (still remember that we would want to park very close to the client as portable in those days meant you needed to go to the gym to carry it for any reasonable distance). Many years later, we went back to Macs since 2010, so a very happy user since then. And the new M1's are great to use.