Well it has been two months since we left Arizona for Minnesota and for the first time since the original IBM PC was introduced in 1981 I have not used a Windows PC in that time. Reason being I left my HP 18″ laptop in Arizona – on purpose – to see if I could comfortably exist with only my Apple MacBook Air. Things have gone well and I have been able to complete everything without any problems. As I noted in an earlier post, I do run Windows under Parallels on the MacBook Air primarily because an Outlook add-in, Send Individually by Sperry Software, is not available for the Mac version of Outlook. I use Send Individually when either sending to larger groups than my ISP will allow or when I only want each recipients name to be displayed when sending to multiple addresses.  Also, because even paranoids have some real enemies I still use the Windows version of Quicken. I suspect with the next update of Quicken for the Mac I will make that transition. For other work I use Mac software, Microsoft Office, a neat inexpensive publishing package called Swift Publisher, Adobe Acrobat and Chrome.  Evernote is my filing cabinet where I store documents, emails and any other items that I want available from any device. I have Evernote installed on the MacBook Air, my iPad, iPhone and on my HP laptop and have full availability regardless of which device I have. If you haven’t found Evernote yet you owe it to yourself to take a look.

For a confirmed Windows PC person to have found the transition to Apple this easy is really quite remarkable. With the advent of iCloud and the seamless integration on all of the Apple devices it will make it tough to even consider moving back to the HP in the fall.