When I was learning Rails on a windows laptop I was running in to all sorts of problems and issues when following tutorials. Something wouldn't work and you wou

When I was learning Rails on a windows laptop I was running in to all sorts of problems and issues when following tutorials. Something wouldn't work and you would go off in to a two hour rabbit hole googling around trying to find the solution. Eventually I would get it working on windows. Most tutorials are for the mac but I would be following them on windows. One night I ran into another issue following a tutorial and I decided I was going to try to same tutorial on my wife's macbook. Tutorial went super smooth and I completed it in less time than I had been spending trying to trouble shoot each issue that came up doing the same thing on windows. OSX just works. It will save you enough time to pay for the hardware and give you piece of mind make your life way easier. Sure you could develop on windows but OSX is way easier at least in my experience (Rails and Laravel Development). A macbook air is more than powerful enough for web development and you can get them on sale for less than the price of an upper end windows laptop.