No, not really. When my purchase was made, the Macbook Pro had the nicest screen and form factor with 16GB of memory. I debated the Carbon X1 at the time, but

No, not really. When my purchase was made, the Macbook Pro had the nicest screen and form factor with 16GB of memory. I debated the Carbon X1 at the time, but I recall it was limited to 8GB of memory. I regularly work with Java-based ETL tools and datasets that spill out of 8GB, so having 16GB was important. I could have gotten more memory if I wanted a bigger form factor but I really didn't want to lug a "workstation replacement" around. A couple of years ago I said if the Macbook lasted as long as my Thinkpad X200 did (4-5 years), it would be a reasonable purchase. If I was buying today, I might just buy some type of large screen Chromebook and do everything on some cloud VM instance with even more memory.