[zaptheimpaler]

I've been on a Macbook since 2015 and have been on an i5 thinkpad for a year now..

my experience - on paper the thinkpad is decent. i5 1.8Ghz (upto 3.4Ghz) and 16GB RAM. But in practice its always constrained by power and heat so it never reaches those boost speeds. It frequently gets laggy running a light backend workload (webserver/client/message queue/redis) + IDE. The trackpad and display is also not as good as a macbook. The build quality isn't bad by any means though, everything is solid and works well. I don't like Windows but thats personal preference.

On a windows laptop, you have to really do your research on which laptop in particular, look at how much power and cooling that specific laptop can do w.r.t the CPU, because without that the CPU alone does not mean anything. this is the kind of stuff i generally don't have to worry about on a Mac. I would get a Mac..