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I feel the advantage of Apple is much lower power consumption yet similar performance which is what caught my eye.
Windows seems to churn way too much power these days unless you go mid-tier.
Yeh, maybe. My Surface Laptop was really good on not having excessive power consumption. Those machines by Microsoft are quite good and don't get enough press coverage in my opinion. I have used one for about six years without any real issues.

To be honest power consumption has never been an issue with any laptop I have owned. I have been close enough to power that I can almost always connect to "shore power". I have USB power in my truck along with a 110V outlet that I can use. On long road trips I charge my watch and my phone from my truck, the laptop from the 110V.

Long flights, such as my trips to Europe, I am not awake long enough for power to be an issue. Even on the long train trip (8.5 hours) in Germany, in 1st Class there was power at the seats.

I have never been a situation where I have run the battery down and was concerned about running out of battery power.

Yes, Macs are good. But using extensive Lightroom processes, which sometimes peg the CPU at 100% for several minutes, the battery drops fast. Windows machine or Mac machine.

My reason for changing to Mac for the laptop was my Surface was approaching 4 years old with a lot of use. I was becoming concerned the battery was reaching end-of-life and it is not replaceable. I decided to go Mac for something different. I still use basically the same software. The Mac still irritates me on some of the file management, especially file selection, copying between folders. With Windows the OS will offer to replace, or skip, existing files in a child folder. With the Mac you have to replace all the files in the child folder.
 
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