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I keep making things worse for myself.
Instead of trying to use the MacBook exclusively, my inner pragmatist insists I continue to use the best tool for the job. And the iPad remains the better tool for many jobs—reading, email processing, document annotation, music sketches, web browsing, note taking, video watching, social media, and interpersonal communication being the main ones for me.
Read More → review technology productivityNow I understand why people complain about Dropbox’s performance penalty.
If you’ve been on a desktop machine like I have, it’s easy to miss Dropbox’s presence. You have no battery to worry about, and the machine will typically have enough horsepower to mask the initial sync activity.
Read More → review technology productivityI quickly learned that trying to multitask too much on this machine isn’t going to work. It’s not that it can’t do it, per se, but the performance of each task suffers as you ask it to do more things in parallel.
Instead, I’m having to work the same way I do on my iPad: in a focused manner that prioritizes single task immersion and discourages distraction. I see this as a positive thing.
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I love how easy it is to set up a new computer these days.
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Marius Masalar