It has been a little over three weeks since my new iMac arrived and except for transferring data to Dropbox I have not used the PC for anything and even that function was over three weeks ago. From the perspective of getting things done and efficiency there have been no issues but there has been one non-technical problem, I wear bifocal glasses and this was not a problem with notebook computers as the display is much lower. However, with the 21 1/2″ display on the iMac I was developing a crick in the neck from titling my head so that I could read the display through the bifocal. Well, that is not a long-term solution so off to LensCrafters for single vision glasses with my reading prescription. They should be here in seven to ten days and my neck will rejoice.

I have Windows installed on my MacBook Air for two items; Quicken and the Send Individually plug-in for Microsoft Outlook as their are either not Mac versions – Send Individually – or the Mac version is not acceptable – Quicken. With that said I continue to doubt that I will install Windows on the iMac even though there is no doubt that the iMac could handle the additional overhead. I have not encountered anything else to date where I will need other Windows versions of software. That being the case I can not justify the expense of acquiring additional Windows and Parallels licenses and installing them on the iMac.

As I noted in an earlier post I opted for Microsoft Office 365, the $99.00 per year for five licenses downloaded option, mainly to get Office 2013 for the Windows side of my MacBook Air and to get a license for the new iMac which is still the 2011 version. One other reason I opted for the 365 version is that if Microsoft releases a new Mac version those with Office 365 will be provided that version at no additional cost. I have encountered one issue with Outlook 2013 on the MacBook Air although it is not an issue with Office but with Evernote. The Evernote plugin does not function with Outlook 2013. For those of us that use Evernote as our filing cabinet and note repository this is not good! Evernote promises to have the issue resolved but as of today nothing is available. Another Evernote issue that has noting to do with the above is that Evernote notified all users that their password might have been hacked and essentially forced all to change passwords.

As you can surmise from the above the transition has been seamless and I have no intention of going back to the PC world.