It feels quite indestructible, and if disaster strikes you can replace all keys (key only replacement sets are available from Keychron). Has a backlight, can be used wired or wireless and it’s great for gaming. It’s one of those “clickety-clackety” mechanical keyboards.

Keychron K3 ultra-slim wireless mechanical keyboard.

this one has a very light touch, perfect for heavy writing and no batteries or charging needed.

For gaming I only use wired mice, this one’s cheap, reliable and looks sleak, not overly pretentious.

Apple Magic Mouse II (yes, I love the damn thing).

iPad Pro (M1) with Apple Pencil – for drawing nothing can beat it.

MacBook Pro – Duh, but I’m yearning for an Apple Silicon based machine.

This is the hardware I’m using and have come to love. Now that it’s got pivot tables there’s no excuse not to use it. Here’s my list of full applications that I’m using for most of my creative work (mainly design & animation, but also music/audio stuff). free tool to see and delete what takes most space on your drive.sound input switcher, equalizers for all apps, also volume control for HDMI devices.free tool to completely remove unused apps.free batch image optimizer, lossy & lossless.create standalone apps from web based apps.Amphetamine app (keep your Mac from going to sleep.free video player supports more formats than QuickTime and doesn’t look like a 90s nightmare like VLC.

Not all of these utilities are free, but they’re all worth the money (and not so expensive anyway). These are the first apps I install on any new Mac I set up. Here’s my personal list of tiny utilities and apps that I simply can’t live without on my Mac.

Free volume mixer for mac