By âoereal worldâ youâ(TM)re obviously not talking about most software development industries, because every company/team Iâ(TM)ve been a part of for the past 10+ years has handed out nothing but Mac laptops, while running production services on EC2. No Microsoft involved. Maybe Outlook / 365, but most run GSuite.

Of course.

^ This. I just upgraded a 5yr old Macbook Pro to a new Thunderbolt equipped one for about $800 by selling the old one on eBay. Take care of your stuff, keep the boxes, and the upgrade path on these systems will be in-line, if not cheaper, than the equivalent "PC".