The Great Escape II

The first year or so of weaning myself off Apple was brutal. Trying to find a replacement for my MacBook Pro was difficult as the Windows PC notebook landscape was a barren wasteland of gray. Nothing caught my I and coming from the Apple side of town I cannot lie looks were important.

Not even from a vain POV but actual aesthetics. The quality of the keyboard, trackpad, weight and battery life. So, for the time being, I stayed with my Apple overlords but silently the rebellion was on.

Part of this rebellion was a growing hatred of all things Apple. It was small at first but as I started to see less creative types in the wild using Apple and more latte sipping hipsters and soccer moms who wouldn't know Power PC from Intel I felt betrayed by Apple.

How could they abandon us like that? We the creatives made Apple not Panera Bread eating Johnny come lately. I don't care how many phones, tablets and iTunes items they download. We were the true Apple heads.

Amid my rant, it dawned on me. When did Apple say their products were creatives? Really. I am not talking about how many of us convinced ourselves of this to justify spending so much money on a computer. Not talking about folklore or self-generated peer hoopla. When did Apple say this? I mean Final Cut Pro probably sold a lot of machines for Apple and if you wanted to have Final Cut you needed an Apple PC. Still, Apple never said our products are for the "Creative Types."

If you fell into that Apple PC’s are safer from viruses camp well Linux was safer, and you didn't flock over to them. 

Apple went mainstream and it turned them into one of the greatest corporations of all time.

 Well, thankfully another great corporation Microsoft saw the light and created their Surface lineup.

Finally, a chance to escape but the original Surface and Surface RT still wasn't enough for to abandon the Apple ship.

However, with the Surface Pro 2 things changed. This device had power lots of power. It wasn't too bad to look at and Windows 8 intrigued me as an OS.

So, as I was saving up my money to purchase a Surface Pro 2 Microsoft turns around a d releases the Surface Pro 3.

Any doubts I had about the Surface line up ended with the Pro 3. Larger screen and a slimmer build gave this device a build quality that rivaled anything Apple was doing. With the dock added you basically transformed your mobile device into a powerful workstation.

While Microsoft was delivering the goods Apple was going out its way to drive prosumers crazy as they striped feature after feature from their PC line and replace high-end pro software with apps suited for use on a smartphone.

On the hardware side, things were even bleaker with the Surface Pro lineup Microsoft force PC manufacturers to up their game and before long Dell and HP were releasing some powerhouse PCs that not only packed a punch but were beautiful.

This was more than enough to free me from the clutches of Apple who continues to stumble down the road when it comes to their PC lineup. Even their vaunted IPad Pro with its keyboard and stylus is a nod to Microsoft Surface lineup.