This meant that after installing Chrome, I could download Dropbox and have all of my most important files synced (over LAN!) pretty quickly. I have all my assets, project files, and way too many photos of my pug all in the cloud. One thing that made the switch amazingly seamless was the fact that I use Dropbox for most of my files and personal data. It allowed me to transfer files from the old Mac to the new one, but obviously I couldn’t do this to migrate to PC. Mac has an easy-to-use Migration Assistant feature that I’ve used every single time I got a new Mac.
I worked on my trusty 17” MacBook Pro until I got my freelance career rolling, where I saved enough to upgrade to a souped-up ‘cheese grater’ Mac Pro in 2011! Life was good. I learned After Effects on those beasts! Fast forward to 2009 and the beginning of my freelance career where I was learning Cinema 4D from fellow Mac Pro users like Greyscale Gorilla. At my internship doing graphics for a local NBC station in Pittsburgh, the art department was powered by those beautiful cheese grater Power Mac G5s.
You didn’t need to have an IT degree, it was powerful, it never crashed, it got out of your way and just worked!
The OS was aesthetically pleasing and incredibly intuitive. Common knowledge said Macs were the computers artists used. Pixar was a household name at this point, and Steve Jobs was one of their founders. Back then, I don’t think I even questioned why Macs were the computer of choice for artists and designers.