Steven John/Business Insider The author with his MacBook Pro and iPhone.
- I grew up using PCs, but even well into my college years I never mastered their use; when I switched to Apple, I found myself instantly comfortable with the Mac hardware and software.
- Among other advantages, Apple products allow for easier cross-platform access to data, seamlessly transferring files from phone to computer to tablet.
At the risk of dating myself (actually, I'll remove that risk - I'm 36), I remember when 3.5-inch floppy disks seemed cutting edge and an eight-megabyte video game seemed like a software behemoth.
I grew up using PCs - an Intel 386 to start off with, then a 486, and oh baby, did things get crazy when we got a Pentium - and, for reasons I can't clearly recall now, disparaging Apple products.
Throughout high school and college, I stuck with the PC, going through several desktops and laptops and dutifully copying over all my old files (whether needed or not) with the purchase of each new device.
Then my wife started using a Macbook. The Asus laptop I owned at the time still had a few of years of service left in it, but it would be the last PC I ever bought.
Why did I switch from PC to Apple? Because frankly, I'm not all that great with computers, and Macs are just easier to use.
That's just one of the reasons I'm glad I made the switch, but it's a good starting point. So let's start there.