
Since my single-digit days messing around on Windows 95, I’ve used every major iteration of Windows, even Millenium Edition. My dad was a software developer, and therefore had professional licenses for each. I’ve built Windows PCs and gamed on them. I’ve run my life on them. And I’ve done my work on them. Now, that last one is no longer true.
A few months ago, I was given a 2019 MacBook Pro 16-inch — the model my company uses as its fleet of higher powered laptops for system-intensive tasks. And so ended a life of working on Windows. Up until then, I didn’t realize how much the Windows machines I’ve worked on in the last decade-or-so were slowing me down.