[necovek]

Depends on your sensitivity to ergonomic issues as well.

Millions of people use MacBooks happily, but I personally hate them for their glossy displays, shallow keyboards and sharp palmrest edges (perhaps related to my hand size, since edges on a 14" MBP cut into my palms). MacOS also stopped having subpixel rendering, so any non-300dpi external screen (meaning all non 8k screens in existence) will show fuzzy fonts.

If you are looking for a machine to use on the go, I'd steer away from them for the above reasons.

For hacking, you also lose much of the access to internals too, or when you don't, it's way harder to get it than on a GNU/Linux system.

[muzani]

I used to think this way too. Built in monitor (MBP) is actually really good IMO, better than the others at the price. Keyboard is poor, always the thing I hated about Apple products. But you can connect an external keyboard/mouse to it. And it beats the weird custom layouts you see on some gaming laptops that doesn't work so well for programming. A MBP is built for development.

Monitors are a problem in my experience and it does show fuzzy fonts. MacOS also has weird behaviour on some websites.

Still they're pretty good travel companions. The 2022 MBPs are light as a book and has excellent battery life - about 8 hours unplugged. I used to bring a MBP and my main Windows laptop to work, so you can put two in a backpack.

[necovek]

For travel, I prefer matte screens (glare really affects me, causing headaches as I try to focus around reflected windows and lights, and especially reflected motion from myself and the environment), good keyboards and even lighter laptops: while ~300gr of difference between a Thinkpad X1 Carbon and MBP14 is not much, it adds up in your bag. It's got a full day of battery too, though more is always better :)

Not to mention soft-touch rubbery palmrest: I hope they never move away from that, it's perfect (though I don't care about it being a fingerprint magnet, which it is).

[armajid]

This is really insightful, thank you!