> Over the years I upgraded to a MacBook Pro, then the MacBook Pro touchbar and in the middle of that I bought a 27inch iMac. Frankly, the sudden price sensiti

> Over the years I upgraded to a MacBook Pro, then the MacBook Pro touchbar and in the middle of that I bought a 27inch iMac. Frankly, the sudden price sensitivity seems odd. Is there something else going on? > With the work I do on photo/video editing and my love for flight simulators... Aye, there’s the rub. > Another reason to bail is the expense in repairs, particularly living in a country where there is no official Apple store. Apple has these machines made so that if something breaks you are basically fucked and the only choice is to take it to get repaired. Probably the strongest objective statement in the whole post. Until… > If things break on the custom build I am working on then I can easily fix without it costing me a fortune. Except the total cost (price+time) of replacements in a custom build can go UP after just 2–4 years if you didn’t buy into the latest spec for a given component, undercutting the value argument. > Apple once catered to creatives and when I first used a Mac I was amazed by the creative tool suite they had. Additionally, the rest of that paragraph is, contextually, a strawman. ———- I’ve worked on both OSes for 20+ years (graphic design, photo editing, video editing, web development.) Microsoft has closed the gap. So, unfortunately, has Apple. But the view that Windows 10 has changed the game is myopic. Bottom line, the whole Mac vs. PC thing has been tired for well over a decade. The way I think of it is similar to the idea in photography that a great photographer doesn’t require expensive equipment to produce great photographs. Choose the best tools for your craft that you can afford and be deliberate in making the best possible use of them.