I am, frankly speaking, not a fan of Apple and its ecosystem of products... but I still bought a MacBook Pro.
To begin with, my old ASUS ROG Strix GL553VD was aging (9 years), slow, and I frequently ran into reboots when running unit tests because 16 GB of RAM wasn't enough—though I suppose that was partially an issue of RAM speed. And yeah, increasing the swap size to 20 GB was not the fix.
Obviously, I was annoyed and decided it was time for an upgrade. My first choice was not to engage with Windows. At the beginning of my career, I had experience working on Windows, but mostly via WSL because I liked to play games; however, that is kind of irrelevant now. Really, Windows is only good for games, Office staff, and maybe—really maybe—for developing something in the Windows ecosystem.
Because of this, I was sure that anything I bought would have Linux or UNIX. The question of price didn't worry me much because I wasn't going to buy a laptop for just a year or two. This is where performance, the amount of RAM, and SSD size come into the scene.
Apple sucks when it comes to prices per RAM or disk size. Originally, I was going to wait for the HP EliteBook X G2 with 64 GB of RAM and a 1 TB SSD, but I just could not bear to work with the constant reboots anymore, so I bought a MacBook Pro on M5 with 32 GB of RAM and a 1 TB SSD. It was also partially because the M5 has better single-core performance...
I’ve been working from the Mac for almost a week now, and it is fast, no doubt. I still cannot get used to all the hotkey combinations, though time will fix it. But when I switched from Windows to Ubuntu, the only difference I noticed was that changing the language was different. Right now, my biggest disappointment is that this shitbox does not have any USB-A ports, and I needed to buy an external hub just to connect a USB flash stick or my mouse. So, fuck you Apple for this.
Anyway, if you were click-baited and expected me to compare or advertise one OS over another, you wasted your time. If you like something, you like something. The only important thing is accepting that most of the world's software runs on Linux, most code is probably written on Mac (though I'm not exactly sure about this—I’d probably need to Google it to be certain), and most office stuff is done on Windows. So, choose depending on what you need)))
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Was a big fan of the Surface Laptop series for years. Have recently migrated to the slim side of the System76 lineup with no regrets. Got a Macbook (M3) for work a year ago or so and honestly (while i've used mbp periodically in the past) it's amazing how mediocre the os experience is. I can't stand it, honestly.