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Macbook Air 2020

     I wanted to take a moment to discuss some computer stuff. I have always been torn as a computer user. I really like Macs, but I also really dislike macs. I bought a Macbook Air this weekend, and I've been having a lot of feelings. 

    In case you don't know, I built my own desktop PC in 2011. I still use it today, with minimal upgrades. I maxed out the RAM, added more harddrives, and upgraded the videocard over the years. That's about it. It has been nice for a major base of operations for my photos and gaming. The portability on it sucks though. Because of that lack of portability, I've always kept a laptop around. When I worked at newspapers, we always had Macs, so my first good laptop in college was a Macbook Pro. I loved it. I've had many macs over the years, desktop and laptops, but that Macbook Pro was the game changer. That desktop tower of mine is starting to age out though. The processor mostly doesn't keep up well anymore. However, since it's so old I can't just upgrade the CPU. A new CPU will need a new motherboard, and also new RAM. 

    My last laptop though, I wanted to keep everything in the Windows ecosystem, so I bout a Surface Tablet, which I hate. It is the slowest, most useless thing I have ever seen. It was pretty much only good at being the interface to move photos from my camera card to a portable harddrive on trips. 

     I ran into a problem with my desktop computer trying to take my LSAT, and the only work around was for me to buy a new computer. Insert eye roll here. So, I was down at Best Buy, and saw they had a 2020 MacBook Air priced down to $800 from $1400. It was the last generation before Apple went to inhouse processors with the M1. I took a chance and bought it, even though I know Macbook Airs are slow and this may phase out of usability sooner because of the Intel chip. 

    I am glad I got it. I really missed the whole user experience of a Mac if I'm honest. Especially now that most things I care about exist on both or are in the cloud. I was initially upset, for example, that I had to go to Adobe Creative Cloud, because both Lightroom and Aperture are long dead as apps. But once I realized that Creative Cloud came with website hosting, and still costs less than Wix or Squarespace, I justified the CC subscription for my website with the perks of legit photoshop and Lightroom. The other apps I use on a laptop like Quicken and Google Docs, don't care what you're on. 

    Battery life is great on the Air because it has no moving parts. This is great for keeping it alive for me to use in the field to backup photos or do just open it and do some quick accounting. 

    Hopefully, that was some interesting information about what goes on behind the scenes. 

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