Using Windows For A Week
On a MacBook Pro.
I have wanted to do a review on a Windows laptop after a comment from a reader suggested the idea on my iPad Pro review. Most of my reviews are on Apple products since that is the ecosystem I am currently stuck in. But before purchasing a Windows laptop, I remembered that I had Windows 10 already installed on my MacBook Pro, which made me wonder:
Did I need an actual Windows laptop to test out Windows 10 and compare it to macOS?
I ultimately decided no. So over the past week, I decided to use Windows 10 running on a MacBook with macOS Catalina installed. Before I go over my experience in using Windows 10, you might be wondering why I had it installed on my Mac in the first place?
Since working with my Dad in his IT business, offering IT services to companies around the area, I have always had Parallels installed on my Mac notebooks with a VM of some version of Windows installed. For many years it was Windows 7, which I enjoyed but honestly just felt like Windows XP with little modern design elements. I preferred using a MacBook as my main computer, but the job required me to have Windows installed since we were continually…