All the graphics and video editing suites, AFAICT, are now also available for Windows, too. For audio editing one probably does not need two video cards.
So, what's your use case? Just curious.
I don't feel like I have the option to do that these days, and I'm pretty disappointed by it. $4,000 on a laptop is my best attempt and it's still not.. quite. there.
They've shifted most of their hardware lineup towards consumers and is the weakest it's been for developers in a long time, but developers are still hanging around because they have to if they want to target the Apple ecosystem.
People who've been in the industry for longer than 15 years would remember the last time this happened.
Even if we see it coming a mile away, or if we wake up and look around and see it happening.. what can we do?
Go back to the web is always an option, but I don't like it. I still genuinely believe that the experience I can deliver writing software for iOS is higher quality than what I can deliver on the web.
Has anyone found a secret third option yet? :)