So… I Bought a MacBook Air M4. Let Me Explain.
After my first post about my plan, you might be confused to hear that two weeks ago I bought a brand new 13” MacBook Air M4.
It’s true! My most recent purchase was an Apple device — even after saying:
I want to have more freedom using my technology.
I want the ability to change plans without so much friction.
I want to have fun again!
It may sound like I’m contradicting myself. But let me explain — and maybe you’ll see that it actually makes perfect sense.
The plan was never to ditch Apple completely. The plan was to have more flexibility and freedom in my tech life. That includes making decisions that serve me now, not locking myself into rigid ideas just to stay consistent (I change my mind often).
I work as a software engineer, and in my work, I use a 16” MacBook Pro M3 with 32 GB of RAM (a pretty fast machine). I've been using MacOS professionally for over 10 year, and I just like it. Normally, I used my work computer also as my personal computer, but in recent years I have been changing my mind and started thinking about having my own machine for my projects and personal things. It's obvious that I spend most of my time on my work machine, so I do a lot of personal things there.
But over time, I started feeling the need for a separate machine, something truly mine for personal projects. Since I have a lot of configurations and software that runs on Mac, with sync it is very easy to just have another machine like the one I use every day. And as much as I want to experiment with Linux (for example), I also need a machine that supports my current workflow without friction.
So I made a conscious choice — not based on brand loyalty, but on what works best for me right now. Also, the M4 MacBook Air 13 is light, fast, efficient, and beautiful!
I don’t want to be stuck in the Apple ecosystem forever, but I also don’t want to reject it just to prove a point. That would be just another form of dogma — and I’m trying to move away from that.
The big difference is that now I’m keeping my setup more modular. I’m not going all-in. I’m leaving space for change, curiosity, and experimentation — like using cross-platform or web-based software whenever possible
So yes, I bought an Apple device. And I still stand by my plan.