You don't want to buy Apple's entry-level tier. Buy up - it'll last a lot longer. My daily driver is a 2012 MBP. I'm looking to replace it (it's 11.5 years old

You don't want to buy Apple's entry-level tier. Buy up - it'll last a lot longer. My daily driver is a 2012 MBP. I'm looking to replace it (it's 11.5 years old and is still running just fine). To me it looks like the machine to go for to replace my daily driver is the MBP with the M3 Pro and 36 GB of RAM. It costs $400 less than what I paid for my existing machine in 2012 - and that's in 2023 dollars. $3199 in 2012 is worth $4200 today. @2800 vs. $4200. That's $1400 cheaper, in today's dollars, than what I paid back then - and I'm getting a helluva lot better machine for it, and I should be able to get a machine I can use for at least 8-10 years. Is it the cheapest route? Probably not. Is MacOS the best OS today? For my purposes, yes, but it's not a hands-down yes. Yes, this machine costs more than $1599, $1200 more. But it's a machine I'm planning on using for 10 years so that works out to $10 per month. I think it's worth it.