That does seem weird. Probably Apple doesn't care about developers or rather expects them to wait for the 16 inch version? Personally I brought a windows works

That does seem weird. Probably Apple doesn't care about developers or rather expects them to wait for the 16 inch version? Personally I brought a windows workstation laptop and I have pretty much regretted that most of the time - if you are going for that kind of performance, running VMs, etc you are probably better of with a desktop. I expect that if you build a system with the new Ryzen 3 you can smoke almost any of the new mac models for 50%-75% of the cost. Screws you pretty hard if you actually need the computer to be a mac for some reason.