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Do you mean the start menu? I never open it, just use Win + number for pinned apps.

Windows is not perfect but it excels in many regards nowadays and the last years, Macs were really expensive and risky. They were too expensive to just have a fall-back machine lying around (if you make serious money with you gear, every hour counts). I have 3x 2.5lb notebooks here, if one needs to be sent in, so what.

Edit: just opened it but there are no ads... what do you mean?

re 'doubled perf': AMD Ryzen 4000 Notebooks are coming these days, not sure if the Macbook is then again old tech.

It is progress. Apple runs a monopoly, people seem to not be able to escape (I'm on Windows) and Apple has struggled to fix an utterly broken keyboard for 3 or more years. So, finally they did this on an entry model.

Even I who gave up on Apple thought, hey what a nice machine.

Not really but when you try new config/Dockerfiles/docker-compose setups it's nice to have power + bandwidth. Thus, I develop on a remote server.

While this MBA turned out really well, current Windows featuring WSL2 is quite impressive though. Having a full Ubuntu or Debian on your machine is priceless. Or you develop on a remote server, then you just need a good terminal. So currently both macOS and Windows are good for JS dev. It's a matter of taste and price.