While true, if you need OS X for your work, you're stuck. I don't need OS X, but I prefer it for work for two reasons: 1) Developing on *nix like OSes is far

While true, if you need OS X for your work, you're stuck. I don't need OS X, but I prefer it for work for two reasons: 1) Developing on *nix like OSes is far more ergonomic to me than on Windows 2) OS X, in my opinion, hits a sweet spot of polish / "just works" and letting me do my power user things. It's not flawless by any metric, but it mostly stays out of my way. I run Fedora on another laptop and Ubuntu on my older MBP, so technically the majority of my OSes are NOT OS X, while the majority of my hardware is. I'll take the trackpad on my 2009 MBP over the trackpads I've felt on brand new Lenovos and Dells, and I can't recall a laptop keyboard as useful as the pre2016 MBP. That being said, if my option is to be limited to half the memory of competitors and to change my entire world to USB-C, having to replace my Cinema Display, etc. when I upgrade my laptop in a year or two, it might be the excuse to go find a different manufacturer. My biggest hesitation is finding very new models that work very well with my preferred distros.