After many years of looking longingly at MacBooks, I took the plunge and bought a MacBook Air. It was a bad Windows update that killed my beloved Toshiba that pushed me over the edge. I had to buy a new laptop and I was so annoyed at Windows that I sucked up the extra price of the MacBook and I just bought it. And, immediately felt guilt over having done it.
Whatever. It’s done. Moving on. Money grows on trees, etc. No big deal.
The learning curve, my friends, has been great.
Besides the weird trackpad scrolling that I haven’t turned off because I mostly like it and just haven’t completely gotten used to it, I am constantly struggling to figure out how to do things. It’s particularly annoying when I’m doing a screenshare with other people. I’m pretty sure I look like I need to go back to remedial mousing classes because I have no control over my cursor. And, if I’m training someone to do something or showing someone how something works, I’m pretty sure the other person is wondering whether I really know what in the hell I’m doing (I DO, just not with the Macbook) because holy hell, it’s hard.
All of the times people have said that Macs are so user-friendly and intuitive… yea, not so much really. Or maybe not so much if you’ve lived on a Windows machine for a zillion years. I certainly find the iPHone and iPad to be more user-friendly than the MacBook.
Programs I’ve used forever in Windows don’t look or behave the same way on the Mac. (WHERE THE HELL IS THE TRASHCAN IN EVERNOTE ON THE MACBOOK? I can find it on my Toshiba. I can find it on my iPhone. I CANNOT FIND IT ON MY MACBOOK. WHERE THE HELL IS IT???) I have no idea what I’m going to do about image editing. Maybe I don’t need to edit images for work anymore? (I have a new job, yea — I’m sure I’ll never need image editing again. So I’m just going to not think about that at all.) My desktop is a mess because I can’t figure out how to easily move shit into the folders I want them in. The process seems so damn difficult all of a sudden.
OK I’ll stop now. I do love my MacBook. I also love not worrying about corrupt Windows updates. I’ll get used to it. Sassymonkey says so. I believe her. Mostly. I think.
You will. I went Mac after years and years of PCs and OS, and I swear far less at my machine than I used to. Windows can die in a fire.
You will. Really. I promise.
Evernote trash. Go to view > Your Notebooks. It should be the very last notebook in the list. You can pull it into your shortcuts if you need/want to view at a glance all the time.
Moving folders. I find it easiest to open two Finder windows and drag/drop items to new folders.
Scrolling. I can’t help you because I hate natural scroll and turn it off. lol
Image editing. If you don’t need to do it a lot, Canva will work for you. Occasionally I might have to open up an image in PSE to edit for weight, but not often.
What else can I help you with?
Why did you feel guilt over buying it?
Believe her. I went through this about two years ago when I switched to a Mac desktop. I believe you recall the week of hysterical emails of “how do I now crop heroes?!?” But once I got everything functioning again, it really has been an easier machine. But it took 2 weeks before I was fully comfortable with it.