So I have a different take. I put my purchase on Saturday night to go all into apple. We bought 2 macbook air M2, 2 iPhone 14plus (didn’t see the point of spending more for the 15), 2 iPad air5, 2 airpods pro 2 headphones and considering the watch.

Some background information- I’m a medical student and studying for my boards. I had a surface pro 7 (16gb ram, i7) and it was fine. But in clinical skills I found the surface too big in size, clunky feeling and pretty slow to use as a tablet to jot down pt note stuff. My classmates all used an iPad. For 2 yrs I studied at a desk with dual monitors attached to the surface dock so I can have multi screen and a tablet to write on. Problem was I could never study away from home since I needed the tablet to write on but monitors to watch lectures. So that was one issue which could be solved with a samsung tablet tbh. But I study at home and when I’m out grocery shopping, waiting on line at the store or even when getting gas I like to read my notes. It hasn’t been a very fluent process to have my notes accessible everywhere even though I had onedrive. Sometimes I’d save but it didn’t show until 10 min later or a day later…

Now… I currently have a zfold4 I bought last year for a hefty price tag. LOVE the phone. Perfect for reading my notes when I’m out or in bed. My wife has the galaxy s21 ultra I love our samsunf stuff. I ordered 2 weeks ago a samsung galaxy book 3 pro, the samsung S9 tablet and the buds pro headphones. Loved the tab S9. Everything about it from feel, writing, visuals and multitasking is way better than the ipad. I really wanted the samsunf team to win. But the buds were a nightmare to connect to the laptop. No problem with other devices. Things I’d save on onedrive wouldn’t load up on my phone or S9 within a reasonable time (it was on the web browser though). The battery life was short (it would reach 10% before I was halfway through my studying). The biggest reason the samsung didn’t work out for me was because Mac is made for tech dummies. I’m tech dummy lol I actually like the way the Mac feels. It feels quality build. I hate trackpads but it feels great. The iPad air is ehh. Battery life is like 1/3 of the tab s9. Visuals are boring and 60hz refresh rate. Pen sucks compared to tab. Multitasking is behind apple by considerable margin. But I like this icloud thing. Everything’s just so well connected across all devices with no extra effort. Also since like 80+% of med students have iphones, airdropping stuff would be easier. They did it all the time before. I know there is email and what not but convenience is everything especially with little time. I like the Mac gestures but I hate the shortcut stuff. After 1 week of using the MacBook I still don’t know why sometimes the ctrl + key is used vs option+ key or Command + key. Very annoying. I hate their split screen setup and how I can’t manipulate how I want my split screen done. Don’t like that apple doesn’t play nice with other companies.

For me, I think the apple stuff is something I’m looking forward to. There’s less customizations but thats fine. I just need a phone that’s fast enough, pretty bare bones, connected to my other devices and that’s pretty much it. I do feel weird switching over especially now that samsung seems to destroy apple products. Almost feels like I’m taking a step backwards and paying more for it too but it’s the simplicity and integration with its products that I like. It’s very effortless. Samsung may be like that too once it’s set up but I don’t have the time, patients nor tech know how to do so.