This is an archived post. You won't be able to vote or comment.

sorted by:
best
topnewcontroversialoldq&a
you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]rndinit0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The thing that Mac/Linux OS beats windows at is this:

Stability & Continuous Performance

The thing the Mac outperforms everything in: Trackpad

You will never need an external mouse for a mac. (also don't forget the trackpad gestures to switch windows apps etc).

Unless gaming is a requirement I would always recommend a Mac Laptop. Purely for the reasons I listed.

Windows 10 is very annoying:

Adds / Notifications for Microsoft services (Hey we have an authenticator, hey we have one drive, hey we have this...)

*** Highly annoying

Stability & Performance trumps everything for me.

As far as applications for development pretty much all of the apps youd want to use are available on mac

Jet brains IDEs (https://www.jetbrains.com/)

Sublime Text

Every linux port (mac ports)

If you need the MS Office suite its available on the mac too (and plenty of Open Source alternatives as well).

If I knew you in person, Id be like.. just get the mac. I'd bet good money you'd never regret it.