What, specifically, would be a very long list, but I'll try to throw in some examples. To answer your question in a sentence, though: the reduced stress and increased productivity have come from using equipment that works reliably and efficiently.
A much longer response: After I had moved over to my Mac, I realized how much of my work effort had been going into dealing with working with Windows. This comes from 10 years of working on Windows OSs - Win95, 98, NT, 2k, and XP. Dealing with multiple daily crashes/freezes was something I had become used to. Having that aspect of work-life virtually removed (though, not completely removed) has been a huge reducer of stress, and has also contributed to greater productivity. OSX removes or hides a lot of complexity for various tasks - whether setting up a vpn connection, connecting to a wireless network, or creating a Word document - that are just kind of like exposed wiring in Windows machines. However, unlike Win, you can also get at that complexity in a clean, predictable, and sensible way if you want/need. Again, a lot of stress reduction there, and also greater productivity. I've been able to learn to do more lower-level computing with my Mac than I've ever been able to do on a PC. Also, after a month or so I found my Mac much more enjoyable to use than any PC I've ever worked on. Far more reliable, sure, but also just more pleasant. This is speculation on my part, but I think that what makes Macs so nice to use has to do with the way everything is so explicit in the UI - when you put something in the trash, there's a little dust cloud animation that plays: you absolutely know, even in the back of your mind, that what you meant to do happened. The same approach applied throughout the entire UI experience means that there aren't unterminated threads building up in my subconcious, unsure if a particular action has occurred, or not. And, then there is the fact that my hardware is a lot better - if I had spent $2400 on a PC laptop, I'm sure I would have a much better experience than on the $1400 laptop I was using previously. But... as the CEO of my last company went around saying for weeks, "Want to see my Vista wireless solution?" (holds up a network cable). The overall experience is _so_ much superior to Windows machines that I can hardly keep myself from encouraging anyone who is thinking about switching. Hope that's useful. --- In [email protected], "Paul Andrews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "ross_w_henderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 1:39 PM > Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Do you use a Mac? > > > >I switched about 10 months ago, and I'll still tell anyone who is > > interested how happy I am about it. I do all of my work, comfortably > > and happily, on a 15" MBP. > > > > The overall positive impact on my productivity is more than worth the > > 5x pricetag. But, on top of that, my working life is so much less > > stressful, it's just ridiculous. And, that of course, also makes me > > more productive (which in turn reduces stress). > > So what specifically was giving you such stress on windows that is now gone > on the Mac? > Where has that productivity come from? >
