I recently made the switch from a macbook pro to a windows machine for personal use. My work machine is a 15 macbook pro with touchbar and I loathe that machine. It has no usb ports ( only type c) so plugging in my DAC and other peripherals is a pain. The keyboard feels like somebody has pasted keys on the chassis and I really miss the function keys. Apple also did away with the shiny logo at the back. I recently bought a lenovo machine for personal use and I love it.

- It's light at 1.6 kgs

- Upgradable RAM which i upgraded to 16GB

- The keyboard has travel and is brilliant.

- HDD + Intel Optane - Intel Optane is a caching layer which sits in front of a traditional HDD. So you get SSD level performance from a normal HDD. It also means that I can install Win+Linux+VS+Android Studio+Ableton+Games on it and still have 500+GB to spare. Also it's an NVME module, so i can swap it with an SSD anyday.

- Can play PUBG and Overwatch and proper games on it.

- 8520U CPU, which has 4 cores and 8 threads.

- Windows + WSL ( Arch Linux ) + Dual Boot(Arch Linux). WSL Is brilliant because it allows me to run a copy of Arch inside of windows without virtualization. pacman is a much better package manager than brew.