{"id":1858,"date":"2017-05-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2017\/05\/18\/1618\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T21:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T19:51:07","slug":"1618","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2017\/05\/18\/1618\/","title":{"rendered":"10 years ago, I switched to the Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A decade ago, <a href=\"\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2007\/01\/17\/830\">I switched<\/a> from Windows to the Apple Mac. Fortunately, my employer knows that developers need good hardware, and was happy to buy us top-of-the-line MacBook Pros.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not everything is perfect on the Mac, but it\u2019s still a joy to use such excellent hardware and software (fast, beautiful, high quality). And I love working on a Unix-powered machine. I can\u2019t see myself going back to Windows for another decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My first MacBook Pro 17&#8243; (photo from 2008) and Dell 21&#8243; monitor in portrait mode:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com\/files.strehle.de\/tim\/blog\/2008-10-21-tims-desk.jpg\" alt=\"Tim's desk in 2008\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s the second MBP 17&#8243;, with my beloved Apple Cinema 30&#8243; monitor (photo from 2010):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com\/files.strehle.de\/tim\/blog\/2010-12-01-tims-desk.jpg\" alt=\"Tim's desk in 2010\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The one I\u2019m typing this on is a MacBook Pro 15&#8243; I got in 2014:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com\/files.strehle.de\/tim\/blog\/2017-03-15-tims-desk.jpg\" alt=\"Tim's desk in 2017\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m also using an iPhone since 2008 (3G, 4, 5, 6, 7). I guess that makes me an Apple \u201cfanboy\u201d \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Update (2018-01-02):<\/em> On the new job, I got a fresh MacBook Pro 15&#8243; (space gray, touch bar) and a 27&#8243; Acer monitor:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com\/files.strehle.de\/tim\/blog\/2018-01-02-tims-desk.jpg\" alt=\"Tim's desk in 2018\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Update (2019-01-18):<\/em> More pixels are always better \u2013 I added a 27&#8243; Lenovo monitor:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com\/files.strehle.de\/tim\/blog\/2019-09-17-tims-desk.jpg\" alt=\"Tim's desk in 2019\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A decade ago, I switched from Windows to the Apple Mac. Fortunately, my employer knows that developers need good hardware, and was happy to buy us top-of-the-line MacBook Pros. Not everything is perfect on the Mac, but it\u2019s still a joy to use such excellent hardware and software (fast, beautiful, high quality). And I love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1903,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions\/1903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}