Biting the Silver, Apple

I’ve had a big Apple desktop at home for over a year now (the dirt on the keyboard before I cleaned it yesterday testified to this). I’ve always been conscious of the fact that I really wasn’t exploiting its full potential nor getting much better in my mastery of all things Mac. So after lugging my oversized Dell PC to the US and being ridiculed one too many times by my American colleagues, I decided to ditch Microsoft and go all-in on Apple. I received my new Macbook Pro earlier this week. It was wonderfully prepared by our IT department up in Paris, and despite it’s beauty I had already prepared myself mentally for 2-3 weeks of reduced productivity. In actual fact as soon as they told me I’d have Outlook and PowerPoint for Mac, then I was pretty sure I wouldn’t be using the virtual machine with the Microsoft operating system that I’d asked them to install for me any time soon. And so the first few days have been pretty pleasant. I miss a couple of features such as having multiple time zones in the Outlook calendar on Microsoft (really useful when you’re in the US every other week), but overall I am delighted to have made the change. My only concern now is that seeing the new horrendous iOS 7 on my iPhone, I wonder if I’ve backed the wrong horse…