Windows User Switches to MacBook Pro 

If you want to delete instead of backspace, hold the fn key down and press delete, it then acts exactly like the windows delete key. Two key presses required yes, but it eventually becomes muscle momory.

I agree with you. One of the features that I like the most is how macbook stays at the same speed even though the battery life is about run out.

I recommend: - pasta, for the clipboard - rectangle, for resizing windows with shortcuts - ctrl + c to copy the the screenshot and not save it - fn + del to use delete backwards apps are both free and works amazing

06:54 Small tip: You can have a screenshot automatically available in the clipboard, instead of being saved to a file, if you hold down Ctrl as you are dragging and releasing the capture border 👍🏻

First time on the channel. I think the video is great. Videos about day to day experience are much more understandable for normal users than watching benchmarks. Some things i've read in the comments and what i learned myself. The "delete" function can be used with the function and backspace keys (read that in the comments and tried it out, it worked) or by pressing the control and "D" keys simultaneously. For the screenshots you could try using command+shift+5 instead of command+shift+4 (which i assume you use). You can just copy the screenshot (with command+c) then and paste it to where you want it to be. Also command+shift+3 would be a screenshot of the whole screen.

Great video. The thing that I can’t get beyond is how hard it will be to learn an entirely different OS. It seems like it would not just take months to learn the complete gamut, but building the muscle memory to do it all again without thinking. These devices add hundreds of new functions every year so I salute you for your willingness to invest so much time to learn something new.

This was exactly my experience going from Windows to Mac for everything. Took a little bit of time getting used to it but now I see the benefits.

Hey! I have recently switched to mac from windows too, for the delete key you can use fn + backspace. I was so used to using delete that editing text felt really slow until I discovered the key combination

I can totally agree with all the experiences you told. I love both OS. Each has its positive and negative sides. But since I have the MBA M1 I never again have used my Lenovo T470 (which is still pretty good und running fast as hell - for a standard Win 10 Laptop). Sometimes the file Organisation on Mac drives me crazy, but most of the time I work a lot faster with Mac than with Win.

I haven't scrolled to see if someone's mentioned this yet in another comment but for the multitask view 7:46 you can hold option when hovering the fullscreen button, and what it does is allows you to fullscreen/split screen an app you're using without actually entering "Fullscreen" mode. This should allow you to open up other windows on top of your splitscreen view.

im a student, and im still rocking with my 2012 macbook pro, for me, windows are for pc, gaming for hours, but when i wanna go out, working on group projects, im going with my macbook

A big point to highlight. As a developer you will have a nice time installing dependencies. You also have a native bash/zsh shell, as opposed to powershell. It’s as close as you can get to a linux box without running linux, wsl aside.

My first time on your channel and it's great! I like that you take the angle of a "daily user" :) I'm not a content provider so I don't care so much about Blender scores as much as I do about how a piece of tech is going to service me for work and my personal life.

Hey bro, you can actually customise your dock in the setting, and you can drag the folders you always use to the dock for easy access

CMD + Shift + 5 on your keyboard brings up the screen clip feature. You have a plethora of options for how you want your clips to be stored i.e. clipboard, desktop, downloads, etc.

You can do Option + left or right to jump by words. You can also use Option + delete to delete by words. Also command + delete will delete by lane. And command + left or right to jump to either end and command + up or down does the same. We can push this further with Shift if you want to Select and jump by words or lanes or Select all the way up or down.

10:58 You can move the dock to the left (or right) of your screen as well and you could also make it smaller and leaner (even have it auto-hide), more like a quick launch area and use spotlight search to get to other apps.

In the Finder, right click any portion of a path in the status bar to copy that part of the path (or the whole path). Go->Go to folder (shift-command-g) will let you paste a path. Nice being able to continue any portion of a path and paste it like that.

Hoping these solutions help anyone with similar issues ! 1. Pressing and holding control when doing any of the screenshot commands (e.g. cmd + shift + 3 for fullscreen screenshot or cmd + shift + 4 for selective screenshot) saves the screenshot to clipboard instead of saving to desktop 2. You can get clipboard manager apps like Maccy 3. My personal favourite mac hack is Rectangle which is absolutely free and lets you snap windows like you can on Windows ! Including with keyboard shortcuts :) 4. You can definitely change how the dock works (i.e. moving it to one side of the screen, making it disappear entirely until you move your cursor to the bottom of the screen, changing its animation, getting rid of recents, etc.) in settings

Great review! There are Excel shortcuts on Mac as well, it was originally written for MacOS in the 80s before it was released for Windows.

I just ordered my first M3 Mac MacBook Pro having never used MacOS and being a lifetime windows user. The file management stuff is what makes me the most nervous so my game plan is to try to find some applications that give you a more Windows-like file management experience

Apple silicon is one of the biggest changes in computers in as long as I can remember and I worked in computer sales for 4-5byears and kept up with every new release. I've been on Windows since I was 4 years old and have used Macs before but never thrilled with them. I got a refurb M1 Pro 14" as a compliment to my 5900X desktop with 2080 GPU. I now barely ever touch the desktop at all unless it's for gaming as the M1 Pro laptop is as quick as the 5900X system in all but the most intensive tasks. All in a tiny body with amazing display that I can use anywhere for 6+ hours. Completely bananas

Thanks for this upload. Style wise, I would prefer keeping the video frame constant, natural pauses between sentences, no whoosh sound effects and no background music.

Thanks for the helpful comparison. Although I made the switch to Mac many decades ago, as a non-power user I've never missed Windows because I have continued to use some of my irreplaceable Win apps with Parallels Desktop. Even on M1 Macs, Parallels runs seamlessly and very fast, with virtually no practical loss of speed compared to native Mac apps. One other not-so-minor consideration in choosing Mac over Windows as a non-power user: Mac support is great because Apple takes responsibility for both the system and the hardware. Moreover, my experience has repeatedly been that phone support continues long after formal coverage has run out. FWIW, I have a background in electronics and can troubleshoot and fix about 95 percent of the problems I encounter with our Macs - M1 desktops and laptops, iPhones and iPads - but when I can't, it takes only a couple of minutes on an initial call to Apple support to reach a senior tech, and they invariably can fix the problem. Compare that to the typical experience with Windows machines that have problems.

Hi there: to recreate the “delete” from the Delete key in Windows, press the “fn” button in the lower left corner of the Mac keyboard and the Delete key in the upper right. Hope that helps.

If you want forward delete on mac, press fn(or globe key) + delete, try it out. Besides, you can try other shortcuts too, such command + delete , option + delete, command + arrow , option + arrow, command + shift arrow, option + shift arrow, try them and you will know what i mean.

delete key is hold the function key (bottom left) and hit delete or backspace) for screenshot, before you left go the mouse click for capturing the selected zone, hold the control key, then in your desired locationg to paste the screenshot, hit command + v

2:48 There is a way to use the windows delete key on mac. Just use function and backspace (delete). It does the same thing. It is annoying that it doesn't have dedicated key tho.

I feel you on the preview for apps in the dock, it's worse with multiple monitors. The same bar shows on both screens so if you have a Safari window with RU-vid on your left screen and another Safari window with other stuff on the right monitor, it takes a surprising amount of mental energy to get back to the windows from the dock. You right/long press on the Safari icon and then have to look at the text to remember which window is on the monitor you are looking at. Apple really needs to work on window management and multi-monitor support.

To capture a screenshot on Windows, press Cmd + Shift + 4 and then select the desired area. Before confirming the final selection, press Control; this way, the screenshot is copied to the clipboard. It's a somewhat complex process, but it does work. Additionally, you can use the 'rectangle' tool to move windows to the left, right, up, right, etc., using customizable commands. This app is free.

you can copy the path, right click on the folder on the path below and you can copy the path. You can have the dock on auto hide, just right click on it and go to setting

Best analysis ever. Honest and straight to the point

you can turn on auto-hide for the dock - also, you can move the dock to either left or right side

As a user of both operative systems, I think that a good combination is having a MacBook and a Ws PC so that you can get advantage of the amazing battery life, the portability and experience a MB brings, but can still use windows at home when needed due to its productivity, compatibility and multitasking performance. Nice video, keep it going!

if you want to screenshot to the clipboard instead of to a file use the option key when taking the screen shot such shift-option-command-3 or shift-option-command-4. That will cause it to go to the clipboard but not save it as a file. I think there supposed to be a way that you can reverse how that works but I don't recall how to do that at this time. Personally, I like having it save it as a file, that way if I screw up and lose the clip in the clipboard, I can just reopen the screenshot. Once I am done, I can delete. To me, its not that big of a deal but that's just my preference. I just thought you should know that there is a way to screenshot to the clipboard without saving to the desktop. Also to copy a files path from finder, you have a couple of options: Option 1: right-click or option click the file that you want to copy so the menu comes up on the screen. If you press and old the option key down while the menu is open, you will see the copy change to copy "filename" as a path where filename is the name of your file. Option 2: If you have the file path showing on the bottom of the finder window, place the mouse over the filename at the end of the path and the right-click or option-click the name and it will have the option to copy as a path.

Hi, stacks is maybe not enabled that’s also why you have a lot of files all over the desktop, try to pres command and a file or a folder in the top of the window, you will get the path, and you can access the subfolders. Nice video.

If you go to dock settings, you can choose for the dock to go away unless you hover to the bottom.

For screenshots to clipboard, just do cmd + ctrl + shift + 3 (full screen) or 4 (capture portion)

For window management, you can use Rectangle, it's free, and offers keyboard shortcuts to resize instead of dragging and snapping it (which it also lets you do). Great video, def subbing!

Good video. I started slowly using Mac in 2014 and I have to agree with everything you said in this video. For me I type slower with the low profile keys. I adjusted to Mac OS a lot faster than I thought I would when I first started it.

It seems that a number of issues/cons you mentioned are because you are new to Mac OS, it will be interesting to see an updated video once you have had enough time to get used to Mac OS

Great video. I am also a Windows user that switched to a Mac and I use some softwares like Rectangle and AltTab to do the needed multitasking.

must say I enjoy your video a lot because of how u see the camera all the time

Dude for screenshots just press command+space and write screenshot, select the screenshot app and configure it to save automatically in clipboard (you have more settings there)

I’m surprised people don’t talk about Command-Tab, the equivalent of Alt-Tab on Windows. It’s the primary way I multitask, and you can quit things with Command-Q just by pressing that while it’s up. And it makes it trivial to see what is open.

To save a screenshot to clipboard use cmd+opt+shift+4; it doesnt save to desktop but in clipboard.

I’m contemplating switching from my surface to a MacBook for next semester and this review helps in my thinking of doing that

7:39 hold option while hovering the green button

The video is so well thought out and coherent. Great job!

For multitasking, i can recommend you rectangle, which do basically the same multitasking like on windows

To use windows style delete key, press function + delete on Mac, does the same thing as delete in windows. Mac OS also have an alternative way to view different windows of a same app: deep press on the app icon shows you all the windows that are opened for that app, and in the settings there is an option for 4 finger swap down to view all the windows opened for the current app in focus. As for windows snapping, bettersnap app solves most of my problem with Mac OS windows management, and spotlight is so fast that it is often faster to open apps with it than going to the dock or alt+tab in Windows. Closing apps with a mouse might be faster on windows due to the placement of the close button, but Mac have superior keyboard shortcut to close an app: command+w/q is so much ergonomic, intuitive and easy to press than alt+f4 on windows.

Creating a 'rubber-band' area of your screen)copied to the clip board to be pasted wherever you want (I do this almost daily)… Shift+Control+Command+4 , then rubber-band the area you want to capture with the crosshairs and let go then, use Command + V to paste wherever you want. You can specify your own custom key commands for the range of screen-capture options.

Moral of the story this guy didn’t look up ANY of his grips before making this video 😂

Some of this has probably been covered by other commenters, but I figured I'd let you know a few tips that I thought of during the video. I've been a Mac user since 1990, and have worked (as a programmer) on nothing but Mac laptops since 1998, but my 16" MBP M1 is my favorite Mac ever. - You can move the cursor by word by pressing Opt-Left Arrow and Opt-Right Arrow. When not in Vim, I use this all the time. Cmd arrows will move you to the beginning and end of the line. - I don't really paste paths, so I don't know of an easy way to get a path (but a utility I'll mention soon can probably help with that). One way you can get a path into the clipboard is to drag it onto Terminal, which will put the path on the command line. To _go_ to that path in the finder, you can press Shift-Cmd-G, which brings up the Go to Folder dialog. - Saving screen shots is an option. Press Shift-Cmd-5 and the screen shot interface will come up. At the bottom of the screen is an "Options" menu that you can use to select where the screenshot is saved. You can choose Clipboard, bug if you're usually messaging it to someone, you can also choose Messages. As far as things not natively supported, I highly recommend Keyboard Maestro. I use it for dozens of macros to control the UI, but of interest to you are macros I use to snap windows to the right, left, top right quarter, top left quarter, etc. You could also probably use it to capture the path of the currently open Finder window. While it's probably the most valuable utility I know of on the Mac, here are a few others you might like: - SwitchResX: Allows me to increase the resolution to 2992x1870 (better than my previous favorite, the 2012 17" MBP). I need my glasses to be able to use it but if your sight is better than mine, it can go up to 3456x2180. - DefaultFolderX: gives many more options in the open and save dialog. - iStat Menu: Gives a menu of various status of the laptop, including CPU and memory usage. - Alfred: Sort of a supercharged Spotlight with more options. - Carbon Copy Cloner: Plug in a drive at least as big as the internal drive and you have an exact clone that you could use to boot another computer should something happen to yours.

Love the channel. I actually enjoyed the whole video.

I know I'm a bit late, but you can change the screenshot settings to make them go into your clipboard rather than your desktop. OR you can press an additional key to your shortcut to do that directly, the CTRL key.

Sorry for the noob question since I’ve been using Windows ever since; and I heavily use Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint for work: What would be the changes from switching to a Macbook pro when using these office apps? 😊

Well, I've only been a Mac user since 2019, and had been a Windows one since 1992 but abruptly switched to Linux Mint in 2015 due to Windows 10. My ONLY complaint about Mac are all about not being easily able to play PC games on it. The rest--and especially the OS, I don't ever wanna go back. Ever. I love MacOS for my works. And even more so these days since the era of M1 and Sonoma, because both combined offers a MUCH better support for PC gaming, via CrossOver v23.5.0.

When it comes of taking a screenshot, you can configure it through the settings > tap keyboard > click Keyboard shortcuts > select screenshots / from there you can modify how to take ss in several ways

To delete to the right of the cursor just hold whilst pressing the delete key.

Also kinda sad that you didn't touched on the topic of reparability and upgradability

Fun fact , Microsoft actually patented that window snapping feature

I know this is a small thing, but the background music is QUALITY. Great editing!

I've got the base model M2 Air recently and its been a hell of an experience. I agree, no OS or computer is perfect and that's what keeps these businesses running so its all based on a users need that they should choose. I also hope Windows on ARM to get better soon so that next laptop can be a Windows laptop with good battery backup and good storage and RAM that are not overpriced

I agree on quite a lot of things you mentioned in the video! And overall I also think Windows handles multi-task better than MacOS. One more thing on the multi-task stuff that Windows does better. I can see all my running applications/instances when swipe up using 3 fingers, but on Mac, I can only see the ones that are not minimized and it's super annoying as I have to first check here and if I can not find the one I want , I have to un-minimize a few to see if it was hidden there, what worse is that if you un-minimize the app/instance, you can not click the icon in dock bar again to minimize it, you have to move your mouse to top left of the app/instance to minimize them again... For an easy photo editing, I can use Photos app on Windows, but the one on Mac seems to be just a viewer. And PowerToys is amazing to use! So, I wish Intel and AMD can do better this year, and also hope Qualcomm's new chip could be as good as they stated. I do like the performance and energy efficiency on Mac, but still prefer Windows, not to mention there are quite some interesting designs from Windows OEMs, like the Asus ZenBook Duo 2024, a real duo screen laptop but sill offer the traditional laptop experience.

Excellent video my dude, other than some of your cons being solved with keyboard shortcuts (not that the every day person would use them). Only thing I’d change is that first 15 seconds or so of effects. That barrage almost felt like I was getting motion sick.

For the delete key, you can press and hold the Fn key (bottom left corner) and press delete, that'll essentially do the same thing that "delete" does on Windows :)

If you're a gamer, use windows

as a mac user, I approve this message

6:30 - SHIFT+CMD+G will give you a prompt to go to a different folder - somewhat similar to the Windows file explorer location bar. I acknowledge this is a workaround rather than a 1-to-1 replacement, but thought I'd mention.

I really appreciate your thorough review! I've been a lifelong Windows user, but your video has sparked my interest and confidence. Inspired by your insights, I'm excited to switch things up and try a MacBook for the first time ever!😊😊

Once you mac You can never go back hehe

If I didn’t game I’d switch too

Exactly, you nailed pros and cons very well. It’s surprising that the designers of Mac OS made such a mess and complex stuff when it comes to window management and multitasking. They really need to use their own product or check what Windows or Gnome does for that matter.

you can preset where the screenshots save, and you can make the dock disappear automatically, as well as turn off the recent apps in dock (like everyone). you covered some decent points but most of these are just you not going through a single setting on your entire macbook.

Switched to mac from windows two years ago. Best decision, it’s not perfect but it’s perfect for my workflow.

Only thing great about Macs are portability and battery life. $3000 piece of shit for coding and browsing the internet. Not worth it in my opinion, it’s just a status symbol.

Screenshots - when you hit the screenshot key combo, there is the option to change where screenshots save - you can only have them save to the clipboard

Just a tip - you can use shortcut of fn+delete to remove characters in front of the caret. Interesting perspective - surprised to hear that fingers can hurt after typing, but definitely I don't type enough to experience this.

Your video does not need to zoom in and out constantly. It's actually really annoying 😑

Screenshots: Cmd Shift 4 to go into windows screenshot mode then Hold control while dragging the cursor so that the screenshot saves to your clipboard instead of the desktop

Somehow your video showed up on my homepage. This year on July, I switched from windows to Mac after almost 15 years… no regrets at all (for now) as daily user as usual employee. Airdrop & Battery Life is such life changing on my daily work. I guess it’s hard to back on windows.. ✌🏽

FN+Backspace=Delete About the PrintScreens, use Cmd+Shift+3 (I think it's 3) and make it go to the clipboard once, and after that, Cmd+Shift+4 will put it on the clipboard. You can hide the dock and remove the recents from it on Settings.

came from youtube recommend on phone, SUBBED; sweet channel aaron

10:45 "The dock that doesn't go away" ==> In the settings for the dock, you can select auto-hide, along with many other options.

Great summary! My only comment(s) are: 1. I’ve noticed that the email is in much need of an upgrade. The spelling and grammar on a Mac email need a big improvement. It doesn’t seem to find common spelling mistakes. 2. I notice I have a hard time seeing my emails with a 12 font…and I don’t have that problem on a windows email. Not sure why the font size that looks good on a windows doesn’t look good on a Mac.

6:24 copy and paste the file pad? You can go in finder / desktop to view in menubar and choose "show path bar". You see the path under the window and even copy it and paste it where you like.

This is so helpful. I need a major upgrade from my crappy little dell that won’t do anything ugh. I’m not a major computer user but get very frustrated when I can’t just open and fill a pdf. I’m an iPhone user so have been considering a Mac but wasn’t sure what all the differences were. Thanks!

Did the same thing when I went back to school half a year ago. Only thing that seems overkill to me is the 64gb of RAM, I deliberately choose the 16gb version and it runs all programs perfectly without any hiccups. It ran Resident Evil 4 at 60fps 100% of the time

FWIW a lot of the pros you listed with Mac OS ecosystem features like texts, calls, spotlight search, etc have apps from Microsoft such as the PowerToys and Phone Link apps.

Good video. I am a windows users. I got a M1 Mac Mini but one of the things that is so irritating is the file menu and knowing where you are in the path like you mentioned as well as the resizing of windows. It takes so much longer in MAC. I wish Apple would focus more on closing these gaps on what is otherwise a great OS.

nicely done review, i liked it

Well done review. You covered the issue I’ve had with Windows-based laptops throttling their performance when off the charger as well as little Window’s features like seeing the full path of a file. I think you convinced me to get a new MacBook. 😅

I went through the same changes or windows to Mac. I bought a PC and when my kids used it, they brought it back because it slowed down and or had a virus. I had to reinstall windows almost all the time. But when i bought a Mac Pro, I didn’t had to do anything to it. I loved and still do, love it.

It’s not obvious, but you can use the keyboard shortcut for going to a specific path even when in open/save dialog boxes outside Finder. That allows you to paste paths just like you can on Windows.

Copy file path: option-comand-c. Copy files: copy from source, paste into target (just like Windows) Move files instead of copying: option-command-v into target Manage window positioning/sizing: install Magnet You can resize the Dock and position it to either side of your screen. I suggest mastering Mission Control for incredible efficiency. Welcome to Mac.

6:45 you can copy the path to the clipboard directly from finder by showing the path at the bottom and right clicking it

7:10 it is possible to only save to clipboard, press cmd+shift+5, click options then click Clipboard, then click the x. all screenshots from now on should save to clipboard only.

same, my first macbook is m2max. all work related is on my mac. anything else on my windows laptop. with Karabiner elements app on mac, I remapped my F12 = windows delete key. and fn+f12 = f12

I can connect so well with this video. I bought iMac 2019 in 2019 just because I wanted premium looking computer. But now I don’t see myself moving away from Mac. And also bought MacBook 16 M1 Pro base. So impressive same thing I use it to do schoolwork at work easy hotspot connection, stuff playing from my iPhone through AirPods. Movement I play lectures from Mac AirPods switch so smooth everything. Only 1 problem is gaming support. 1 huge pro over windows is I know I am in control. It’s not keep on asking questions about off load to airdrive or updates unexpectedly when I am trying to do last minute assignment.