I know this is a surface sub , but hear me out . The Dell XPS line especially the 15 9550 are easily the laptops to beat in my humble opinion . Before you buy anything else , check them out . <| sep |> Mac pretty much has everything I need , including IT support that Linux wouldn ' t have unless I pay for RedHat . Well , linux doesnt have pretty much everything you need , it has 5 versions of everything you need . And technically you pay for mac support too . But with linux you have a huge community that would love to help you with anything you need 247 both on forums , SO , and irc . Whilst with mac you ' re stuck with some very toxic apple forums and communities . But sure I get it , mac is easy . And it has a pretty decent default setup . But you cant really change it very much . I too have tried getting a tiling wm to work on osx . But there is really only one alternative nowadays after some osx updates most of them broke and that one felt like a weird hack . Sorry for beeing such a fanboy , but it ' s really frustrating to me how so many programmers and ITpeople spend a ton of money on mac products just because osx is more like linux than windows is . and linux is free , works on their exiting machines , and just mostly better .