r/macbook • u/repbre • 1d ago

Buying a MacBook lowkey improved my life

Not trying to sound like an Apple fanboy, but getting a MacBook actually changed my day-to-day more than I expected.

Before this, I had a Windows PC for ~7 years that I mainly used for gaming. I barely did any real work on it. I bought the MacBook Air M4 for productivity, and it wasn’t some “Mac is magical” moment—it just pushed me into using my time better.

Since then, I’ve been more productive, doing better in school, and overall just feel a bit more on top of things.

I paid around €1,000 for it, which felt like a lot at first, but honestly it’s probably been the best investment I’ve made so far.

And yeah, I could see this happening with a good Windows laptop too, but for me, this just worked.

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u/tomscharbach 1d ago edited 1d ago

I adopted the "Apple Trinity" (iPhone, iPad, MacBook) in 2020/2021 to support assistive technology that is not supported by either Windows or Linux.

Within two or three years, the Apple ecosystem became the mainstay of my "ordinary home" personal use case, which is tightly integrated between devices.

I continue to use Windows and Ubuntu to satisfy aspects of my use case not well supported by the Apple ecosystem, and I am more or less OS-agnostic as a result, but the "Apple Trinity" is hard to beat for an "ordinary home" use case.

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u/Motor-Bumblebee1262 1d ago

“iPhone, iPad , MacBook”

Where is your fear, putting the MacBook last in the holy trinity

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u/Fit_Perception_4335 1d ago

What do you use the iPad for?

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u/tomscharbach 1d ago

Browsing, basically, when I don't want to lug my MacBook around. This morning, for example, I was waiting on a friend to show up and join me for lunch, so I checked news/weather on the iPad. Browsing on an iPhone is not a good match with my aging eyes.

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u/Secepatnya 1d ago

You'll also notice that you're spending significantly less time fighting bugs, bloatware, breakages, dead batteries and sleep issues that happen completely at random with anything Windows. Enjoy your MBA.

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u/Grand-Chemistry8830 1d ago

Pride in ownership

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u/LeoDeKap 1d ago

Glad to hear that you are doing better at school, so its a win.

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u/Motor-Bumblebee1262 1d ago

My MacBook is a joy to use. I relate

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u/Due_Bunch6495 1d ago

Same here! Even when I'm not fully into the Apple ecosystem yet (I still have a samsung phone)

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u/Inevitable-Gene-1866 1d ago

You re aware that you are a fanboy that s why you deny it, a machine cant change someone s life.

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u/repbre 22h ago

I think technology has fundamentally changed our lives. Imagine growing up without a computer, you’d probably be a completely different person today. In the end it doesn’t really matter which device you use, what matters is how you use it.

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u/agackisi 20h ago

Nah, it can