[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).