u/HinataLovelace

I recently switched from Windows to Mac after I've used basically Windows for about 30 years. One reason why I did so was an experiment I did on my wife's Mac. I was able to connect to Mac M4 directly, without the mini mic. And that experience was so good that I also switched from Android (Samsung S22) to iPhone 17. I bought me a Mac M5 a few months back.

I have never been happier with this experience. Mac is hands down a much better experience than with mini mic together with Windows. You want to change a mix of your mic? Do it on mac directly. You want to call someone from mac? Well, easy with mac + iPhone. It just works. I easily can mix the mic during a call if I want to. Also alone without the Mac, iPhone beats Android (Samsung S22, I don't know about the later models) by lengths. Connection is much faster than it ever was on S22, it's not just "a bit" faster, it is considerably faster. And setting up the sound mix with mic etc. - is also much faster. For example, if I want to use mini mic which I still use for my office computer, I can change the mix much faster than on Android. On Android, I would have to tap slowly to change the mix and hear every beep for every change in the process, extremely annoying. Also, it is much easier to set up the ringtone and media sound to N8 directly (so nobody else hears it) is much easier and you even have more options for that.

Overall: If you Use Cochlear N8 (and likely also for N7), I hands down recommend Mac and iPhone. Those two also work together perfectly.

The only small drawback I've found so far is that when the mac is open/switched on, N8 tends to switch to be connected to the mac. The handover between iPhone and Mac is strongly leaning towards Mac. I can change that manually on the mac, but sometimes, I forget. That can be annoying, but totally manageable and I definitively don't want to look back.

If you have any questions, I'll look at them as soon as I can, but I'm about to hit my bed right now. I'll check this thread again tomorrow.

I'd love to have one dock per virtual desktop. Idea: one is for personal stuff, one for work/dev work and one for demoing stuff. Is a setup like this possible with DockFix? If I need to combine DockFix with another app, which one should it be? If you already achieved this, what is your setup like?

Many thanks!