I just sold my retina MacBook Pro to use as savings towards my next MacBook (sky lake) and I've been managing ok with just my iPad Air 2 and iPhone 6 for a bit. Then I heard about windows 10 coming out and saw the reviews and decided "hey. I have an old windows 7 laptop in a box somewhere. Why not update that thing and try out windows 10? It's free!"
So I did. And after like 4 hours later of updating my laptop (Jesus Christ it took so long I took a nap) I finally got to try it and wow. This is not the windows I remember. The design language is actually good! The edge browser is pretty cool and looks like it'll be good for ms to build upon, I like their selection of apps and the fact that instead of going to the Netflix site and searching for videos to play (like I gotta do on my Mac) I can just click on the netflix app and boom. Instant Netflix awesomeness. The snapping of the windows is way more intuitive than OS X (even though I got by ok with better touch tool) the live tiles are actually pretty neat and easily customizable and Cortana is like Siri for windows. Why the hell don't we have Siri on mac yet?! And I liked the "iPhone companion app" on there. Was interesting to see how much windows works well with iPhone. Looks like Cortana is gonna be coming to iPhone soon too? Excited
All in all, I'm pretty shocked. I had been away from windows for so long that I had no idea how far they've come. It's actually not a crappy OS anymore! Who knew? I'm still buying a Mac at some point when sky lake comes, but who knows? Maybe I'll load windows 10 on there and go back and forth between OS's all the time.
Anyone here in the same boat?
So I did. And after like 4 hours later of updating my laptop (Jesus Christ it took so long I took a nap) I finally got to try it and wow. This is not the windows I remember. The design language is actually good! The edge browser is pretty cool and looks like it'll be good for ms to build upon, I like their selection of apps and the fact that instead of going to the Netflix site and searching for videos to play (like I gotta do on my Mac) I can just click on the netflix app and boom. Instant Netflix awesomeness. The snapping of the windows is way more intuitive than OS X (even though I got by ok with better touch tool) the live tiles are actually pretty neat and easily customizable and Cortana is like Siri for windows. Why the hell don't we have Siri on mac yet?! And I liked the "iPhone companion app" on there. Was interesting to see how much windows works well with iPhone. Looks like Cortana is gonna be coming to iPhone soon too? Excited
All in all, I'm pretty shocked. I had been away from windows for so long that I had no idea how far they've come. It's actually not a crappy OS anymore! Who knew? I'm still buying a Mac at some point when sky lake comes, but who knows? Maybe I'll load windows 10 on there and go back and forth between OS's all the time.
Anyone here in the same boat?
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