5/2/2023 0 Comments Scrivener for mac vs windows![]() ![]() ![]() The touchpad also deserves a mention – it did take me a little to get used to it, but once I did, I was sold. The toolbar always got in the way and if you did choose to hide it, it would always pop up in the most annoying way, right in the middle of doing something! #7: Touchpad I never had that option on my Toshiba, running Windows 7. I love the minimalism of the Macbook Air and OS X – I have moved my dock to the right-hand side and it is hidden unless I hover over that area to bring it up. It’s the ultimate – not having to worry about finding a power point to plug into! #6: Minimalism I love that I don’t have to take any cords with me when I’m heading out to coffee shops to write. In comparison, after 2.5 years, my Toshiba Laptop would be lucky to last an hour without being plugged in. The battery life on this machine is phenomenal! It does last the 12 hours that it purports it will. In comparison, my Toshiba Laptop is a good 5-7 inches thicker and weighs almost 2kgs on its own! Can you believe that I travelled to Canada and the UK lugging that thing around?! Now, I can carry my Macbook Air in my carry on luggage and not worry that it’s going to send me over the weight limit, not to mention cause a ‘dead arm’ scenario… #5: Battery Life I love how light and thin my Macbook Air is. My top fave apps are Evernote, Pocket, Kindle and Pinterest – I use these 4 apps on a regular basis across all three devices – they are always in sync! #4: Portability The apps available are designed to make my life easier because the apps that I love on my iPad are also available on my Macbook, which makes syncing a breeze. It really does ‘find’ everything! #3: Apps What I love about Finder is that it doesn’t just search documents, but it searches EVERYTHING and that includes your emails. I love this, the Window’s equivalent is Window’s Explorer. Everything is easier, compiling for Kindle and other ebook extensions can be completed with a click of a button and I love that it can create a clickable table of contents – something not possible in the Windows version. Top of this list is the fact that Scrivener for Mac far excels the MS Windows version, which I also had on my Toshiba (although they are nearly comparable now).Īs a writer, and someone who is going to write even more, using Scrivener on my Macbook Air is a completely different experience. If someone can answer this riddle for me, I would love to know – what makes Windows so slow after a good 12 months?īut enough of all the questions! What I really want to talk to you about in this post is how different my life has been since ‘converting’ to Apple, because it’s not just my laptop, I have an iPad and an iPhone and I absolutely LOVE how they all talk to each other and make my life easier! And it has been like that since I purchased it six months ago. In comparison, my Macbook Air fires up immediately, whether it’s been having a nice sleep or it’s been shut down, it is almost instantaneous. Why is it, that with every Windows machine I’ve ever used, the more you switch it off or restart it, the longer it takes to power up? I can remember getting to work (when I had a J.O.B.) at 7am in the morning, switching my computer on and then walking away to make a hot chocolate, coming back 1o minutes later to find that it was still loading up. ![]() Or so I kept telling myself and it was certainly part of the justification to buy the Macbook Air (I’m kidding, of course!).īut, it wasn’t just that (or was it?!), my 2.5-year-old Toshiba was getting slower and slower by the minute. I have been a faithful Windows user for the past 10 years, but started getting annoyed with all the viruses and lack of ‘coolness’ provided by my laptop – a very real thing when it comes to being an entrepreneur – you can’t step out to a coffee shop with a Windows laptop, it’s got to be an Apple! It’s been six months since I switched from my Toshiba Satellite Pro Laptop to my Macbook Air and I couldn’t be happier!
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