Time to leave macOS behind?
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Time to leave macOS behind?
It feel weird, but mobile OS's could be enough...
My MacBook Air M1 is now having some big issues. The battery performance is poor despite being assessed as ‘good’ but macOS and the general performance is staring to bug me as continual freezes appear.
It may be that some work on my side would bring it back to being completely usable, but since I no longer write freelance I have found very little use for it. If Substack worked properly on iOS for content creation I would not use it at all, but putting up with the annoyance of Substack posting would be enough for me to go iPad alone for work that would be painful on the iPhone.
Feels odd to say it, but my days of using a desktop operating system are about to be over and I don’t think that is a bad thing.
No need to make any efforts on figuring out what the problem is... the best option is to start from scratch... even Mac's need to be fresh installed every now and again... and don't do the transfer. Treat it as a new machine.
I have noted some apps/configuration changes having negative impact on battery life that are hard to walk back on... except by a fresh install.
I still have a love using my iMac - in fact I upgraded from a 2013 21" iMac to a 24" one last year. I take a LOT of photos and the big screen is ideal for processing and viewing the photos on, and frankly I also find it great for other much simpler tasks (doing our skittles scoresheets in Excel - a real faff on my iPad, and even general browsing.
I love my iPhone 13 Pro, and my iPad Air, but my iMac and MacOS isn't going anywhere for the foreseeable...