It keeps getting better. I moved to a 14" M4 pro (long time Windows user) and I really enjoy the Apple ecosystem. Everything just works and works well together.
Indeed. With an Apple Watch, iPad and iPhone the entire system works together well. I like the ability to take photos with the iPhone and when I get home the images are available on the MBP.
I still run a Windows Tower as my main machine. Highly configured with fast SSDs and lots of memory on a high-end Intel CPU. The MBP is just an additional resource to fit into the ecosystem. There are still annoyances with the Mac system that to my brain are not well thought out. Some items are, in my opinion, just a big middle finger to Microsoft.
I don't know that the MBP is any more stable than the Windows system. I do have the occasional app hang on both systems which is largely the fault of the app and not the OS. Windows 11 Pro of late has been very stable in my usage cases.
At one time in the past a 100% full thumb drive, 0 bytes available on a PC, inserted into a Mac system would corrupt the thumb drive as MacOS insisted on writing those "." files and would step all over the file system in doing so. Those were the FAT32 days.
I don't like the CMD-C,V,X key sequence and prefer the CTL-C,V,X system as that is easier with my fingers. May even be muscle memory. I liked using my little finger as opposed to my thumb. Big ol' farmer hands from my youth.
I don't like the menu for an app not being in the app window and instead is on the main menu line. Good or bad, right or wrong, is irrelevant. It is just different and I supposed there are valid reasons for either way of doing menus.
I also have a Surface Laptop and I find it comparable in size, weight, and usability to the MBP. Of course, the MBP is faster as it is newer. The trackpad feels, and works, about the same as far as my fingers are concerned. The Surface has a touch screen, the MBP does not. That is not a big deal as I never use the touch screen.
The Surface uses face recognition, the MBP does not. I don't know why Apple cannot implement face recognition in a screen that is the same thickness as the Surface. I suspect it has to do with the sensor that Apple is using on all their devices, is just a little too thick. There is Touch ID which is a good alternative solution.
I miss a true backspace and delete key. Yeh, you can do it on Mac with a key combination. But I like dedicated keys.
It is just different worlds. Both have their strengths and weaknesses. Neither is superior or inferior. But the integration among the Apple devices is outstanding and cannot be matched by Windows or Android.
