Few months back I was just another frustrated windows user looking for a new laptop. So inspite of the lucrative ultrabook features I decided to opt for a 13” MacBook Air just for the battery life and clean OS.
Over the next months I fell in love with my Mac although being a BlackBerry fan I tried to resist it but it was way too awesome to stay unimpressed. Clean OS along with the gestures made life easy for me. Multiple desktops along with adaptive trackpad, adaptive display and keyboard backlight made the UX more personalised.
Over a period of time, I realised it was not only different and better but the design was just perfect. The vents hidden behind the hinges and single finger opening apart from the sleek design and aluminium craft work.
Being a writer I was very skeptic about the typing experience but the keys turned out to be much better than I had anticipated. Small things had been taken care of, the caps lock does not get turned on if hit accidentally and the auto correct which is much better than what is portrayed in internet memes. The two finger tap eliminates the right click, three finger tap on a word shows meaning, thesaurus and web definitions which saves you the entire process of selection, right click and search with google. Small algorithms saved a lot of effort. And the best thing was the push notifications. Being an outlook user, I was not impressed or even satisfied with the UI of the mail application and neither with the incompetence to sync drafts.
And eventually I was so impressed that next month I got myself the iPad Air but it turned out to be a disappointment. After updating the iPad to iOS 8, the graphic on OS X Mavericks started looking a bit outdated but pretty soon Yosemite got released.
The graphics were much better and cleaner although it looked a bit gay to my naive eyes. The new graphics made it look like iOS 8 on mac as it was intended bring uniformity in UI across devices. As far as the iPad is concerned, it was not much functional, the gestures were exactly the Mac trackpad gestures on the touchscreen. It solved the mobility issue but did not add to the functionality as expected.
When you can do everything on your MacBook there is no point in getting an iPad but if you are just a casual user and are not willing to shed the extra buck you can do a lot f things with the iPad + keyboard cover but it would be more time consuming. And the worst is the email app on iPad, when I compose a mail on outlook online the drafts get synced to my BlackBerry and vice versa but neither is possible with the iPad. And the battery is just worse, it lasts 10 hours but it takes almost double time to charge as compared to my MacBook Air. So as far as the functionality is concerned it is nothing more than a toy if you have a MacBook.
Again back to the Macbook, it still had a few things in stock which I had failed to observe earlier. Even colours and fonts appear much better on a Mac than on windows laptops, especially the grey colour. So websites look much better on a Mac than on windows. Moreover the OS is designed to make the UX friendly to a layman so instead of trying to understand the system, the user can focus on work. Operations which seem complicated on windows like uninstalling an app are as simple as deleting a file.
So if you are looking to purchase a new laptop and still skeptic about Apple, I would suggest not to be skeptic as MacBook would an investment you would never regret.
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