I have a question for those of you that moved over to Apple. How was your learning curve and did all your software work? I have tried using my daughters Mac but I do not like having to figure out how to find the apps, setting, and dealing with if it has a USB or not.
Since I use excel and work a fair amount I would have to purchase new software and find all new drivers for my printers, speakers, etc.
Was not all this a hassle? The new MAC does not have a traditional A or B USB right? No headphone jack right? I would have to purchase a new backup drives, new USB drives, etc...
How did you overcome all this hassle?
Moving from one environment to another is always going to involve a learning curve and adaptation. This year (2018) I've been working on a long-overdue transition from a Windows PC (Dell) purchased in 2007 to a more recent iMac. Having been an iPhone/iTouch user for a while now, the applications were familiar to me at least by name and basic operation on the mobile devices.
The thing that has consumed the most time has been transferring data from the PC to the iMac. Lots of stuff I don't want to lose. It turned out that the Western Digital external drive that was attached to the PC and using WD's backup software is readable (but read-only) by the iMac. It didn't take long to copy the data on that drive to the iMac and now I'm sifting through what I want to keep or toss.
I bought a USB hub at Walmart that is working well and can be helpful for transferring or charging things while I work. I suppose that sort of thing is dependent on what your particular Mac support by way of ports and such.
Things like printers/scanners "just worked" when I set the iMac up. I've purchased a newer external drive, dedicated to the iMac and under control of MacOS' "Time Machine" to manage the backups.
I didn't leave Windows entirely, though. It is expensive, but I got a VM (virtual machine) solution that allows me to run Windows (another expense) on the Mac. I use it regularly, but only for a very limited set of Windows applications.
I think making the leap to the Mac is already and will be a big positive going forward.
[ADDED] One other thing that has been taking a stupid amount of time is importing (from CDs) my collection of music into iTunes. I never tried iTunes on Windows, guess I never associated that OS with “art”. But that's entertainment/pleasure-directed only!