Interesting, when I wrote the article the prices were what I could generate on the Apple website, but you are correct that they are not the same now. I should have taken screenshots! Thanks for the heads up, I'll update the article to reflect that :)

Cool. :)

Yeah, after I kitted things out with full upgrades, the macbook does seem to be the better option, especially if you like macos. The rosetta 2 support and docker have come a long way and most of what I use at least now has aarch64 support.