>I'm not here to take the piss out of your laptop of choice,
>buying a Macbook is probably the kind of status symbol your peers will respect you for.
Make up your mind.
How are the two mutually exclusive?
You're saying you're not taking the piss out of the choice, and then also saying only [implied lesser] web and web3 developers buy them as status symbols for the sake of peer respect, which sounds a lot like taking the piss out of a choice.
The whole "this machine is more stable" and "my anecdotal opinion is x/y/z" nonsense is a non-starter for productive conversation comparing the systems. The upthread comment was warranted to call them out on Apple fanboyism; their statement was nonsense and exclusively backed by their personal experience. I've talked to enough "serious developers" to know that there are no perfect operating systems, and pretending like any one of them is king is just hubris incarnate.