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[–] wchanley 2 points 1 year ago

MochiLoaf! ❤️

Which Mac(s) are you currently you using and how do you like it so far? in c/mac@lemmy.ml

[–] wchanley 1 points 1 year ago

I'm currently on an M2 MacBook Air, which I got almost the minute they went on sale last summer. It is, hands down, my favorite Mac ever, and I loved my clanky old SE/30 like almost nothing else, so this is saying something (hehe).

I'm using it for client work (graphic design), extremely casual gaming (mostly stuff from Apple Arcade, so Arcade is perfect for me, really), and the usuals: socials, web stuff, etc. etc.

Favorite Mac apps? Hmm. I'm currently playing with MacWhisper, and it just amazes me how good it is, even using the smaller, free-to-use language models. I'm transcribing audio for the husband's online classes, when he posts feedback videos for his students, some of whom would also like a text transcript to accompany his video responses to their in-class posts, and it's just shockingly good.

I live in the Affinity suite (Designer, Publisher, and Photo) most of the day for client work.

What would I change? Hrm. I had a two-port 13" MacBook Pro before this, so I'm used to just the two available thunderbolt ports, but it would be handy to have one more over on the right side of the case, sometimes. Not a major gripe, at all, just a nice-to-have, not a need-to-have.

Otherwise, this little guy just runs and runs and runs all day (I get about 15-16 hours on battery, depending on what I'm doing), and it runs everything I can throw at it without blinking. If it ever throttles I literally never notice it.

It really is the best Mac I've ever owned. 🙂

We call these fosters the 3 orange popsicles in c/animals

[–] wchanley 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Best popsicles I've seen all day. 🙂

I wonder how long everyone here has been using Apple equipment. I’m an old greybeard so we’re taking 68k era for me. Well, Apple II really!! Then PowerPC then Intel and some newton and og iPod and of in c/apple@kbin.social

[–] wchanley 2 points 1 year ago

Our household computer was a IIe, then an SE, and when I trundled off to college, the first Mac I half-bought, sort of on my own, was an SE/30. (Parents paid for half, hehe.)

Then in either 1992 or '93, I graduated to a IIvx (color! Macintosh! OMG!)... and then, in '96, I moved to the gloriousness that was the Powerbook 1400 (PowerPC! GOES EVERYWHERE!), and it was all over for me and desktop Macs. I've been a Powerbook & MacBook fanatic ever since. The 1400 was followed by a Pismo Powerbook G3 in either '99 or 2000, then an iBook G4 (GARAGEBAND, omg omg) in 2003 or '04.

Then a succession of 13" MacBook Pros, culminating in... last year's M2 MacBook Air, which is, hands down, my favorite Mac ever, ever, ever, in the history of the universe. Runs literally everything I can throw at it, including the occasional Linux or Windows apps I need for client stuff (UTM ftw, hehe), essentially weightless in a backpack... if it ever throttles, I literally never notice.

I can't possibly love this little guy more. It feels just... utterly perfect, in ways very little else has, since that SE/30, years, and years ago.