{"id":7562,"date":"2015-09-24T09:43:18","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T08:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/?p=7562"},"modified":"2026-03-26T16:46:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:46:56","slug":"moving-to-mac-an-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/2015\/09\/24\/moving-to-mac-an-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving to Mac &#8211; an update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2015\/09\/80606CD5-FFAF-430A-A7B4-3D0C036B5F2E.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7563\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2015\/09\/80606CD5-FFAF-430A-A7B4-3D0C036B5F2E-520x390.jpg\" alt=\"80606CD5-FFAF-430A-A7B4-3D0C036B5F2E\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a>Some weeks ago, I <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/blog\/2015\/05\/28\/shutting-the-windows-moving-to-a-mac\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote about<\/a> my planned transition to Mac. Well, that is now history. My iMac, with its beautiful 5K display, is my new Best Friend. I successfully transitioned all the software\/activities from Windows to Mac in one of three ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I simply installed the Mac equivalent of the Windows software. Examples are MS Office, which works beautifully, and Adobe Lightroom, which required care to transfer [I could do it more easily knowing what I know now], but is now in its element.<\/li>\n<li>I found other apps to replace some things I needed.<\/li>\n<li>I looked for other approaches to achieve my goals. These rethinks mainly seemed to result in a better solution than I had before.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The process has not been without pain, but it was worth it. Apple computers are not perfect, but my day to day hassles are now reduced drastically. I am not going back!<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I had reminder of the car crash that is Windows on a bad day &#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I had been invited to present a talk at a nearby camera club &#8211; about an hour\u2019s drive from my home. I had been in touch with the local guy and sent him my PowerPoint file to check out, as I do not like leaving this to chance. He reported that it was all fine. I showed up in good time and we tried to get the presentation to work on their [Windows 8.1] PC. The PowerPoint Viewer could not read the file. We tried the copy on the memory stick that I had brought and the computer just seized up &#8211; the mouse pointer disappeared and there was no response to the keyboard. We power cycled the computer, but still could not get anywhere with the presentation.<\/p>\n<p>The start time was looming, so we tried another laptop &#8211; Windows 7 this time. That was more successful, after a couple of tries, we got the slides onto the screen. We had about 1 minute to spare! I started my talk and got to about slide #10. The screen cleared and the computer announced that it was installing updates 1 of 23 \u2026 There was no way to stop it. We could just wait while it finished and rebooted and let us in again.<\/p>\n<p>Next time I am going to do the presentation from my MacBook, iPad, or iPhone. Or maybe I will get an old-fashioned OHP.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/colinwalls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6579\" src=\"http:\/\/s3-blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/files\/2014\/01\/linkedin.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/colin_walls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6583\" src=\"http:\/\/s3-blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/files\/2014\/01\/twitter.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/colinwalls.author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6591\" src=\"http:\/\/s3-blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/files\/2014\/01\/facebook.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/116301748426290440139\/posts?hl=en%3Fhl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6587\" src=\"http:\/\/s3-blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/files\/2014\/01\/google.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/ColinWalls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6595\" src=\"http:\/\/s3-blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/files\/2014\/01\/slideshare.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"41\" height=\"41\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6599\" src=\"http:\/\/s3-blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/files\/2014\/01\/wordpress.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some weeks ago, I wrote about my planned transition to Mac. Well, that is now history. 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