Goin' Ghetto With New Computing Rig 26Jul15

Well, rather than fishing, I spent the day converting my "mobile" computing rig to a Mac! I have to turn over my current corporate PC to DD to out-process from DHR appropriately and while the XPS15 was a competent machine, it ran Windoze and UX aspects of 8.1 and the hardware itself were just wrong. I'll see how I fare after being an MS user for so many years (though I am still holding onto an original signed cabinet Mac). I will move away from Win and away from Office; I will have to get some image and video processor apps. My setup here is a ghetto hodgepodge of the best I know... MacBook Pro 15 biggie, Samsung 27" monitor, Jabra speakerphone, DAS keyboard, Audeze headset and now an Apple magic mouse. Interconnect wiring for the rig sucks right now... I don't like how PC vendors have abandoned real docking schemes. iTunes is absorbing my music library now and it'll take hours... but the challenging part will really be finding the best email/contacts/calendar synchronizing schemes between iOS, Mac, Google and a Win7 server. Brave new world.

Here's an update regarding synchronization. I experimented with Google Contacts, the latest version of which is nice, and got it to sync with Mac Contacts and my Win Contacts but never got a sufficient synchronizing connector to iOS (it'd work with an extra app/step each time which isn't good enough). I therefore bailed on that and will use iCloud to keep iOS and OSX based contacts synced, which is most important in my workflow, and then keep a static exported version on the Win server.