I got a MacBook for a freelance development project (also needed to build an iOS app) and I have to say that the OS itself feels pretty good. Very much a walled garden and normally perhaps outside of my budget (and the button order on the keyboard feels odd), but in general it's pretty smooth so far!
Nice to see various customization options, BetterDisplay was also pretty useful when dealing with an external monitor (sadly I never figured out why there's no proper anti-aliasing on the external monitor).
You're saying about what I said when I first got paid to do some mac software :)
I bought a crappy used mac, used it to make the money, then thought it was immoral to not get a new laptop (it wasn't a big project but it paid like 3x the laptop, and i was moonlighting it so it was all bonus money).
15 years later i have more macs than x86 boxes in my home office...
I have to say that personally I like the ThinkPad keyboards a bit more and I still have a sweet spot for various Linux distros, but for what it's worth, my experience with the MacBook has been pretty darn good so far!
Nice to see various customization options, BetterDisplay was also pretty useful when dealing with an external monitor (sadly I never figured out why there's no proper anti-aliasing on the external monitor).