I'm not exactly sure where all my user files are, but I always manage to find the right folder for the right application and, once I do, it always seems to show up from then on. But I can say that, compared to Windows, this OS is smart and intuitive.
Since I have limited Mac experience, I can't compare the new Lion OS to prior versions of Mac OS or to an iPad.
For example, my Outlook email, calendar, and contacts were all up and running on Apple Mail, iCal, and Address Book right out of the gate.
The Migration Assistant - that I think launched with the new Lion OS - seamlessly transfers all your files, user accounts, network and printer settings, preferences, internet favorites, pretty much everything, and translates them to the proper apps and utilities on the Mac. Also, the two platforms are more similar than different. The simplicity and intuitiveness of Apple's software and design, along with the new Migration Assistant you'll hear about it a minute, made the setup and transition ridiculously easy. Here are the highlights of my big switch from PC to the new MacBook Air: Sure, there have been a few challenges, like some glitches with the new OS and figuring out that Adobe Flash was sucking 30% if my battery life, but overall, the experience has been a lot like that time in summer camp. I set it up, transferred everything over from the PC, and 48 hours later, posted my first non-PC generated piece of work in 25 years: Why Getting Fired Can Be the Best Thing For You. Three days later, the FedEx guy delivered my three-pound baby, all the way from Shanghai. That was it, the last straw.Īs luck would have it, Apple's new 13" MacBook Air with OS X Lion launched the day before the Sony debacle, so after reading the reviews and taking a day to mull over the big switch, I took a deep breath, placed my order, and waited. I was part of that Wintel rollercoaster ride for a quarter century until that fateful day when my Sony Vaio notebook crapped out. I had a Compaq Portable II in 1987 and more than a dozen laptops since. I've been around computers for over thirty years, from IBM mainframes to Sun workstations.
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