We got a Mac but still, I’m a PC

If you think the title grammatically wrong, Google the term I’m a PC.

I was exposed to IT at a young age, starting from good old Nintendo Game and Watch to Atari, Family Computer and Brick games.

However, my first computer back in high school was actually a Mac. It was bought by my mother here in Dubai and shipped to the Philippines.

Having a Mac back then was a breath of fresh air because most other computers are running on DOS and most popular apps are Word-star, Lotus 123 and Dbase III+, programming languages are COBOL, Fortran, C++ and coders really have to code from scratch.

After a few months, our Mac was replaced with a Chicony XT (x286) PC equipped with a Motorola processo
r, 8 MB SODIMM of RAM, Floppy Disk Drive (the big one). From then on it was only using a PC, even worked on a Windows 3.1.

I got back to using a Mac and developing custom ERP software using 4th dimension when I got a hired as a systems programmer at United Development Corporation. After a couple of years there, I left for Dubai mostly using a PC.

Fast forward to 2016, we got a Mac. We bought a Macbook Pro. I can understand why a Mac has so much appeal. The design was just so different. The metal case makes it feel like it’s indestructible. The charger was also designed beautifully.

We used the migration utility to transfer files and settings from Windows to Mac, it didn’t work at first because our WiFi had network isolation enabled which means that client machines cannot talk to each other. After updating the router settings the Mac and Windows were able to see each other. Files and settings were transferred, so we restarted the Mac. It seems that same access credentials we had in Windows have been transferred to the Mac because the logon image was transferred but we were wrong. We couldn’t log in, it was asking for a password but it was the accepting the same password what we had on Windows. So back to start. This time, skip the transfer from Windows step. It managed to reach a step further than the login screen and reached part where we were asked if we want to encrypt the drive, so we said yes which is a smart move anyway. The encryption was taking a lot of time, so we Googled it, it does take time but we have no idea how long it will take, so we let it run overnight. In the morning, it still wasn’t working. So back to start again skip the migration from Windows and skip the encryption and the rest, as they say, is history. 

From then on “S” post on this blog was done only on a Mac. “S” is the primary user. It’s her dream laptop. She’s been wanting to have it for almost 5 years, so there you go! 🙂