The simpler solution most people miss is to just buy a hackintosh-able laptop, like the Lenovo ThinkPad X220.
Updates up until 10.13.6 worked seamlessly, only "hack" you had to do was change out the WiFi card.
Updates up until 10.13.6 worked seamlessly, only "hack" you had to do was change out the WiFi card.
And by the way, if you need to build Android source code more often than once a month, you need AWS anyway.
The Macbook hardware is pretty excellent, and prices are comparable to the (few) competitors of similar quality. In absolute terms, they are not outside the range that their market can afford.
It is only in desktops, or, more precisely, workstations that Apple's offerings fall short.