Do you still use both a Mac and a Windows Machine

I was wondering, idly curious on a Monday Morning, how many people use both platforms. I sit at a sort of L shaped desk with an M1 MBP with 27" monitor on one leg and a Dell Windows PC with 2 - 24" monitors on the other leg. I end up working on both. Anyone else?

Until July last year I had to use both (Windows at work/Mac at home). Fortunately I now only use Mac:-)

I use several Windows PCs and a M1 Mini.

The one thing that Microsoft has accomplished is to drive down the cost of PC hardware to the point where we can buy a pc, discard windows, and run an OS that is not pervasive and constantly trying to sell us something.

As long as my wife has to run windows on her desktop and 3 laptops I will never get out of the windows world :(

I did have both, but I stopped using the Mac a few years ago when it needed an OS update which the hardware was too old to support. I can't say I miss it.

Don Cox

In response to the question, No.
We're a Mac environment at home. Retired now, but I used Windows at work for ages but never had privileges to go under the hood.

Have been just Mac for many years now. Got 14inch MacBook M1pro and 27inch 2015 iMac, considering going with an M2 Mac mini and separate monitor when I upgrade the 2015 iMac. Mainly using DXO Photolab 6 and Adobe Lightroom for processing, and use Apple Photos with iCloud for storing jpgs, allowing me to access my library from pretty much anywhere (Phone, TV etc) Dxo works very quickly on my laptop, so am very curious how it would perform on the new Mac minis.

I run both a desktop PC and a basic MacBook Pro M1. Never used a Mac before last year but it's a portable Powerhouse for pretty much everything. Still getting used to the OS on the Mac.

I use a 27inch iMac as my main machine. However, I was curious if I could complement it with a laptop so I bought a rather basic Asus laptop which I am surprisingly happy with. I was unwilling to experiment with a $1K + apple machine.

I will say, much to my amazement, that Windows 10 and now Windows 11 have been way way more stable than macOS, especially Ventura which has given me nothing but trouble. In almost two years, I've yet to have an OS issue with the Asus. The iMac, on the other hand, needs rebooting usually about once a week, sometimes several times a week, and never goes longer than two weeks. That's over 4 years of ownership. Go figure.

Bob

I use a mac for photo work and my business, I use a PC for gaming!

I have both, an older MacBook that has terrible color on its screen and a Windows 11 laptop on which I do my photo editing. The only Microsoft software on the laptop is the operating system, I use LibreOffice for documents, spreadsheets and presentations, Firefox for a web browser and a variety of photo editing software, all either free or one-time purchases -- I won't subscribe to any software of any kind.

I am using both Windows PC and Macbook Air.

Perhaps you remember the assembler coding contests. The winner was the code with the least number of lines. It seems when hardware got powerful and cheap efficient elegance was forgotten and now we live with zero day exploits.

Switched years ago from a Windows desktop to an iMac and gave my wife the Windows machine. Well.....until she saw my iMac and decided it was neater and simpler to use - that was the end of Windows machines in our house. (Though I do run Windows 11 under Parallels on my current iMac which is an M1 iMac.)

I have a Mac mini M1 and MacBook Air M2.

I really would like a light 15-16" laptop at a reasonable cost, but every Windows version I try seems to have limitations. I would like to see Face ID on the laptops and Touch ID available on third party keyboards. I use an old Apple Magic keyboard that takes two AA batteries and is much better for my typing style than the newer ones, including the Touch ID model.