I'm a New Convert - Nilamon na ng Apple Ecosystem

I bought a Mac M1 laptop last year because of the great reviews. I got an academic discount (for teachers and students, around 2K discount, not bad), by buying it online at apple store ph. Just the base configuration, 13-inch 8GB RAM, 256 SSD.

And now I'm a convert!

Indeed, the keyboard is pleasant to use,  the integration with my iPhone and iPad is seamless. And the video editing using Da Vinci Resolve is much faster than in my 16GB RAM NVIDIA GTX 1050 gaming laptop. Like, what takes 30 minutes in the Windows laptop takes less than 10 minutes in the Mac. The trackpad can be clicked anywhere. And the battery life is insane! One full charge and I can work from 8 to 5 on battery.

I also know of several colleagues who have had Mac for 5 years and up. Most of my Windows laptops would just be good for 3 years typically. So I'm looking forward to having this laptop for several years.

That being said, there are a few things in Windows that I kind of miss in the Mac. Foremost is moving files and finding where the files are. In Windows it is intuitive how to move files from folder to folder, in Mac, it takes more steps. I only have 2 USB C's and so I bought a hub to allow me to connect to an HDMI monitor and USB harddisk. Pages is amazing because we can use LaTeX for equations but I can not save it in another document format (save for PDF) that can be opened by Word.

Other than that I'm enjoying using it. Still learning and getting pleasantly surprised.