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I come from a first experience of Microsoft Windows environments. In 1999, when I first had a PC at home, my choice was with and assembled machine brought by one of the first on-line sellers here in Italy. It was the time of the Apple's 5 flavours iMac and the coming of the cd/dvd slot on them.

Ah, those beautiful colours!
Ah, those beautiful colours!


At the time I did not know anybody using it, and the price difference was significant, so I went with a PC.

At university I came familiar with GNU/Linux and then lived in a dual boot world for some time. In 2006, with Intel CPU's coming to Apple – with Tiger as an operating system – with my first savings I brought a MacBook. It was love at first sight.

Since then I live in the Apple's hardware & software ecosystem, and have collected many of their products.

The hardware


So today, as you can see by reading this previous post, I am using a Intel i9 powered MacBook Pro 16", a MacMini with M2 Pro silicon with a Benq DesignVue PD2705U, with Apple's keyboard and Magic Mouse. I do have a Logitech MX-2 and a plain (cabled one) mouse for emergencies. But I'm to accustomed to gestures, so I do not really use them.

I listen music with two couples of HomePod and HomePod Mini when I'm in the mood, and use Synology DS213 as a local back-up system. Along with many other external drives. My printer is an HP OfficeJet Pro 7720 Epson WF-4820.

The software


Today my situation is described on this my App Defaults post on my old WordPress.com powered blog. A couple of small things have changed, but nothing special (I switched away from using nvAlt, basically, and now I am searching for a multi-platform alternative).

That's all (at least for now).