When Apple wasn’t dragging their feet on hardware updates, the premium for a MacBook over a similarly configured power laptop was around 10%. Even now a Dell with my system specs (16GB RAM, Core i7, 15" screen, 1TB SSD) costs...well you can’t get one, can you? On their site the largest SSD is 512GB, and that system…

I switched from building my own Windows systems to going all Mac for my household back in 2007. As a gamer, the MacBook pro filled my need for a capable laptop I could use for work (running multiple VMs at once each with 1-2 databases, for example) and gaming (despite the limited library available for Mac, the…