Eh. Haven't used Windows in 15 years and don't intend to in the future either. Linux would require a whole lot of fiddling (if I'd even managed to find a laptop

Eh. Haven't used Windows in 15 years and don't intend to in the future either. Linux would require a whole lot of fiddling (if I'd even managed to find a laptop with good hardware and hardware support to begin with). Macs have excellent hardware (yes you pay a premium for it). Good battery life. Good keyboard (up to 2015 models at least). Great touch pad (hardware and driver wise). MacOS has a good window manager, excellent applications like iTerm2 and Alfred that I wouldn't want to live without and would have to find subpar Linux replacements for. This sucks a bit since I've generally tried to keep to cross-platform apps and because of these I'm a bit locked in. Oh and the consistent keyboard shortcuts across the OS (terminal included) with Cmd is soooo nice. That said I'm using 2015 models (Air and Pro) as the newer ones haven't impressed me at all (had an MBP with touch bar for a year or so). Love the Magsafe power connector (which just gracefully disconnects when you rough it) and don't want to switch to USB-C and its adapter hell. Once it's no longer possible to find proper 2015's anymore I might want/have to consider switching back to Linux (and spend a lot of time fiddling with everything), but we're far from there still - I recently bought a 2015 MBP with new battery for €800. Edit: Unlike one other poster here I loathe iOS and think it's horrible (had an iPhone for a year so have some hands on experience) so I don't use features like AirDrop or handoff (even though it's super convenient between two Macs). And he mentions Touch ID which was actually brilliantly convenient on the newer MBP I had, but that's not unique to Macs. So yeah, the more you lock yourself into the Apple ecosystem the more benefits you get, but I've tried to explicitly not do that.