Macs and Windows and a dual life

The “almost” switch

On December 2019, I made a jump that I have almost never would have considered: to return to PC Windows in the desktop space. Although I had somewhat returned somewhat in 2017 when I got my iMac 27-inch and installed Windows 10 - Boot Camp on it, 2019 was the year where I finally jumped in.

Having had a MacBook Pro 13-inch already made the switch for the iMac easier. Plus I already had an LG 34UM95 ultrawide display that was collecting dust so I decided to reuse it. I eventually will have to replace it with a newer model that will promise 4K resolution and a faster refresh.

The return to Windows in desktop space is the first time I have had a Windows bonafide machine since 2002, when I left to Macs. The last Windows machine had Windows…2000, a Pentium III, a Diamond Multimedia NVIDIA RIVA TNT powered card, a hard drive with a whopping 1 TB of capacity(?), and a DVD-RW drive. I never upgraded it to XP at all.

My new PC (pics soon)

• CPU - AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
• Logicboard - ASUS ROG Strix X570-E
• Hard drives - two 6 TB HGST’s from my G-RAID Thunderbolt II
• SSDs - Samsung 970 EVO NVMe 1 TB and Samsung 830 EVO SATA 500 GB
• GPU - NVIDIA RTX 2070 Super (as EVGA 2070 XC)
• PC case - NZXT H510i

Why move to a Windows PC?

While I still use a Mac (and sometimes I do update this website or do work with my own MBP), the switch in desktop space to a Windows PC came down to a few things:

• the newer Mac Pro was out of my price range
• the newer Mac Pro’s current CPU’s (all Intel powered Xeons) were not as price competitive
• the rise of AMD Ryzen power
• the need of a machine that would grow with me
• the need to get out of the iMac’s all-in-one contained structure