So, it has now been 2 months, since I started my own little social experiment. Early November, I decided to silence down all my mobile device notifications and mute any “distracting interaction” I could find. No, I didn’t silence off my mobile phone completely – it will just make it useless, but I didn’t make it as less intrusive as possible.

So, about 3 weeks ago I decided that it’s high time, to put my trusty Lenovo X1 Carbon Touch to its final resting place. I was contemplating what notebook should I get. My gut feeling told me: “Time for another Lenovo”. But, somewhere in the back of my head was this ever annoying question: “Is a Mac truly better?”. So, in a spur of the moment, I decided to buy a Mac. Because I am what you would define as a power user, I decided to get the most bang out of eace one of my spent dollars.

So, now I’m closing a month with my Mac and combined with my “Hyper – Not!” regime, I started a fairly lengthy road of re-getting used to using a Mac. Have to admit, El-Crapitan has its quirks. Who am I kidding, compared to previous versions, El-Crapitan is somewhat annoying. However, after getting used to its little quirks and kinks, when you combine the Good of the Mac and “Hyper -Not!” – I managed to reach at least a 40% increase in my productivity.

Time that used to be spent on waiting for things to launch properly and setting up on my Lenovo, just cut by almost 70%. Issues of the machine halting on me or requiring a reboot – gone. Issues that required me to go into Task Manager and seek a process to kill – gone!

In other words, I spend far less time on BS and more time on actual work that needs to be done. Previously, I was able to focus on 2 projects – tops. Today, I’m able to focus on 5 different projects and be involved with 2 more. Is it purely to moving to a Mac? I doubt it. Is it purely related to my “Hyper – Not!” regime, i doubt it as well. It must be a combination of the two. How long will I be able to keep this up? donno, I’ll keep you all updated on my findings.