Hi marto,
What's the advantage of a Mac in terms of hardware/software if you're just spinning up a Linux VM to work?
There is none any longer. It used to be that the hardware advantage was the Retina monitor, but now there are plenty of vendors that provide nice 4K screens on 13" or 14" laptops.
Now, on the contrary, the Macbooks have fallen behind in hardware, offering less RAM and disk space and slower chips and disks than competitor systems.
My latest machine is a Lenovo Yoga 910 which I bought with Windows 10 but never booted before wiping and installing Ubuntu. It has 16GB Ram and a 1Tb SSD drive, as well as 4K screen. It flipping screams.
Many devs working at a $company choose to use a Mac with Linux VM because the IT dept insists on having a bunch of spyware, errr, corporate security tools, on the machine, so it's a choice between Windows or Mac.
(In a week from today I'll be getting a new laptop from $newjob -- the manager strongly suggests Macbook with VMs, having himself just switched from native Linux, lol. I don't prefer it as the VirtualBox app on the Macbook always seems to get too hot eventually (consuming all system RAM) and you wind up having to reboot the entire thing or at least the VM platform. I don't have this problem running desktop Ubuntu on the Lenovo (always did used to have problems with a Linux GUI, things have improved). So, I plan to try to get a Linux machine, maybe they will offer the Dell. If not, I plan to bork a Windows machine and install Ubuntu, if I can get a client for the VPN. Will report back.)
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