I doubt I've ever had a side-by-side comparison like this one at the Apple Genius Bar. Two adjacent MacBook Pros, both with 13.3" screens, reflected Apple's iterative progress with design and my evolving workplace, from a single point of interaction to an ambient SaaS-based model.

The new book's desktop will be spare, uncluttered, colorful. Data chunks will be filed away, some on hard drives, others in the cloud.

I write about tech all the time but today I lived it, as I migrated from a data-heavy, single-use machine to a newer technology platform.