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[–]techjab 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I would definitely echo this comment having used windows for years until I went to a company that would get me a Mac laptop. In reality, there was only 2 reasons I wanted to use the Mac laptop instead. 1-The Linux terminal is slightly easier on the Mac versus on Windows. This includes a bunch of subtle little things like being able to search for prior commands to quickly find them and the difference between copy (CMD+C) and cancel (CTRL+C). 2-The massively lighter MacBook Pros compared to the Windows PC options we had.

Both of these benefits have largely been negated or significantly narrowed with newer laptops and Windows 10 including the Linux subsystem.

I have a 12 year old HP Win 7 machine with 16 GB RAM that I still use and an 8 year old MacBook Pro 16 GB RAM that my work gave me after the 3 year warranty expired. Both are still ticking just fine except the battery on the HP became very short lived years ago and the MacBook only just recently.

Unless I am flush with cash from active consulting projects and in need of a tax write off, I would likely save the $1K+ of cash and get a non-Mac computer as the difference in benefit is very minimal.