Seems like you're gonna make a switch, Apple silicon is the way forward, Intel is done on a Mac.
Sadly this whole world resolves around Intel/AMD and Windows, especially in most companies.
The place I work with just provided us with Microsoft Surfaces, God...I hate that stuff, it's awful, even worse....Microsoft cloud, it has soo many problems it's not funny anymore.
My company is losing money going paperless, worse, staff seems to be deaf...just won't listen.
If I ever start a company there will be no Intel/Microsoft ever.
We went paperless years ago. If someone feels they must print something out, they can. I tried to design our workflow such that it was not needed. All of our official computers are Mac or Linux. I am sure some of our workers are using Windows based computers to check their email from home. That is fine, just so long as they don't expect us to support them.
I get behind both these comments, if I were to launch a company I would definitely explore the possibility of going mostly Mac too if se sensible...
Currently at my work I did the opposite move, the company I work for is 99% windows, but since from home I went all Mac with parallel desktops to do some back and forth for 3dsmax files, that’s the ONLY thing tying me to windows... it’s a minor annoyance compared to all the productivity benefits of the ecosystem, just keychain and airdropping the heck out of everything saves me hours (could use others, but these ones are conveniently builtin in all devices).
That plus building directly to iOS, having the xcode debugger ready, window navigation, tons of tiny utility apps that came with parallels that are actually neat (multi history clipboards, convert video to mp4 in a drop zone, etc for example), for the most part everything works (mouse, keyboard, headphones, wifi, camera, etc).
I updated my iMac in august and since day 1 I have been using zoom, teams, discord, you name it... some team members almost a year later still have sometimes issues with conferences without a video feed or responding back via the chat text because the mic didn’t want to connect.
I'm still using my 2013 MacBook Pro, the battery is on the way out, and its showing its age. Big Sur was the final official update.
I am holding off for this upgrade, because it sounds sweet.
I have a 2014 that I kept around “just in case” and recently installed Big Sur. Was pleasantly surprised, it flies, I think depending the use case, these machines can still punch with some weight, at least a final fight before the bigger jump.
Should have sold it, have used it once during the pandemic and once again just to install Big Sur 🤷♂️
