In 2008 after years of being an hardcore Apple hater I had to install macOS on my Dell PC because of that nightmare of Vista (this a very long story so I’ll just cut to the end)

I discovered an all new world of “shit just works”, found piece of mind and started making money.

Bought my first Mac in 2010 and never went back. I also have P400 and a portable Lenovo running Pop_OS and Sway, because that’s part of the story too.

This is a little more niche, but as a hobbyist guitar player, I've wasted a ton of money on gear that had some use, but was mostly redundant or not all that necessary.

But the best purchase I ever made for guitar gear was a Digitech Trio pedal. There was a blow out sale with one of the major music vendors and they were just giving them away for $50. I don't get a chance to play with other folks all that often, and especially over the whole Covid lockdowns, this thing made at-home play/practice just the most fun thing ever. The pedal generates drum and bass parts that will fit whatever chord progression you feed it, so it just fills in the whole rhythm section and you can do whatever you need on top of that.

It gets more use than any other piece of gear I've ever had.

I got a PowerMac G3 with a 1994s Apple keyboard and a 1996s apple mouse, full functional,fooorr.. 10€. My best deal ever!

A Ducati Desert X

Alfred app for Mac. It is kind of a spotlight replacement for Mac but so much more. Think of it as turning your machine into productivity powerhouse where you are using the keyboard to access everything very quickly instead of wasting your time clicking around with the mouse. It is like a Swiss army knife where even just one of its features is a whole app for other people. I use it all day everyday for the past decade. And I keep adding to it new workflows or discovering new features. It is the app that is a million apps in one.

An elliptical machine, if you have space for it.