Owned ThinkPads for more than ten years. Started using a MacBook pro in 2015 as my main machine and never looked back. The good things about ThinkPads: Their k

Owned ThinkPads for more than ten years. Started using a MacBook pro in 2015 as my main machine and never looked back. The good things about ThinkPads: Their keyboards are excellent. Also, I love the fact that I could replace almost every part of if. Other than that I can't say too many good things about them. Mainly I was using the x2.... line. The x2...t models (tablets) were pretty sturdy. The non-tablet version wasn't (x220, x230...). Constantly some part would break. Just by being carried in a messenger bag. Now that's the hardware. (Lenovo advertises them as super sturdy, military spec or something.) Comparing that to my MacBook Pro Retina 2015: Been using my MBP daily. It goes with me everywhere. Never failed. I won't say much about the OS. Only so much: Windows was terrible for open source development. I heavily rely on a terminal and bash. I was using Cygwin and PuTTY. This combo gave me a decent terminal and shell. But it was far from perfect. Then I installled Ubuntu on one of my ThinkPads. Loved that. But I was missing so many tools (Evernote, OmniGraffle and so much more.) macOS gives me all the proprietary software I love. Plus a Unix environment and an awesome terminal (iTerm). I'd go with a MacBook (Air/Pro).