[MisterTea]

If someone offered me a free Thinkpad or macbook I'd take the Thinkpad. Standard PC architecture so I can boot anything, cheap, work well, trackpoint, repairable, parts available. Oh and lets not forget the hacker community behind them is amazing: https://www.xyte.ch/t700-crowdfunding/

[kkielhofner]

Platform preference is totally fair but I'm at an age/stage where I shudder at having to deal with hardware at all. Maybe I've been lucky but I've never had Apple hardware fail with even my 2013 Intel Macbook Pro still going strong (and dual-booting Linux). I actually bought this Macbook Pro as an almost impulse purchase after dealing with yet another hardware issue with my $3500 Framework which I purchased as a kit. That was more-or-less the last time I dealt with hardware and it just ended up being extremely frustrating to the point of drastically impacting my productivity.

Builds, doing repairs, upgrades, etc used to be fun but my life and career has gotten so complex I just can't be bothered with it at this point.

Sadly it hasn't been fun for a while but I completely understand the advantages for people who aren't as tired and grumpy as I am.