![]() ![]() It’s more or less comparable spec-for-spec to same-class laptops. The “Apple Premium” is no longer a premium if you go the Apple Silicon route. My only issues are when I “brew install” an aarm64 package and some x86 Python module tries to bind to its libraries. Using Miniforge will lock you to aarm86 + noarch. This includes Python: if you use Miniconda, you will be stuck to the x86 + noarch modules, as per usual. Rosetta2 makes every single compatibility problem either invisible or at worst a minor annoyance. I use a Mac for very similar work to you and find it to be the best dev environment, for, also the reasons you mentioned: Unix (FreeBSD) environment + great support for consumer friendly applications like Excel. I’ve got significant experience with macOS (every release going back to Snow Leopard), Windows (every release going back to Windows 95 sans Vista and 8), and Ubuntu and RHEL7/8 distros on Linux. Those of you who run a Linux+Windows combo, how productive are you guys? Is having to switch back and forth worth it at all? Is the MacOS premium worth it? I also have no idea what Windows 11 brings to the table. Lastly, Excel on MacOS does miss a few features here and there compared to Windows, but I'm not too familiar with them and I don't think it really matters. Also, I heard that developing on the M1 isn't all roses and flowers especially for lots of Python libraries since they don't compile properly. Looking at these criteria, it seems like the obvious choice would be to work on MacOS, but I'm wondering whether it's really worth paying the 'Apple Premium'. Linux has zero support for Office so I'd essentially be switching between the two (I'd make Linux my primary OS). I do not like doing my dev work on Windows even with WSL. This decision would be a no-brainer and I would undoubtedly be using Linux (I use arch btw) on its own if it weren't for the fact that having Excel is an absolute essential need. My work over the next two years will involve quantitative finance, so it'll essentially be Data Science, Software engineering, and Machine Learning work. I'm getting either the Framework laptop or the new M1 Macbook Pro I boiled the decision down to just the development ecosystem.
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