Many well-off tech companies automatically buy you a MBP when you join - and you'd have to proactively ask for something else to prevent this. I got used to my

Many well-off tech companies automatically buy you a MBP when you join - and you'd have to proactively ask for something else to prevent this. I got used to my first Macbook like this - and have continued due to construction quality and ease of keeping my whole computing setup running easily anywhere in the world... But their continued insistence on slowly morphing their laptops into what you'd find in a future like Pixar's WALL-E makes me think they're on their way out of the business of enabling pioneers.