I'm in the exactly same situation. RAM is the most important reason. Add to this the x86 support and macos doesnt seems a good option any more. BUT then, you se

I'm in the exactly same situation. RAM is the most important reason. Add to this the x86 support and macos doesnt seems a good option any more. BUT then, you see all devs and presenters on most famous dev confs use mac. Yes, macs are the most stable system for presentations and its a unix with commercial apps. Even office are now M1 native. I had a problem, docker keycloak didnt have arm version, well the solution was, build docker the version of keycloak in arm arch and you're done. There is no generic answer. For me, the best option is get a cheap windows machine or cheap mac and remote connect to a linux desktop in you company (if you have the option). That desktop will run 24h burning their power, and you are light and on the go with a cheap terminal which has MS office. The other solution I tests is, connect your IDE (vscode, intellij) with remote development ssh in a linux vm (on cloud, or your company). Again you have linux x86 and a glorified terminal-computer. with mac, you have a bonus, able to dev in ios and test safari. BUT the biggest con is compatibility. It was already a con compared to windows, but now with arm is even worst.