10 years ago, I wanted to learn Ruby on Rails, so I bought my first MacBook Pro. Just grabbed it off the shelf at the store.

I got my first software development job, and everything was great. I thought it was odd that the other guys didn't know much about Macs (and didn't really seem to care), so when they'd upgrade the OS I'd have to fix everything for them, or they'd have issues with gems etc.

I started buying every MacBook as they were relased. Installing beta software, upgrading the RAM and HD just because I could. Spending countless hours reading reviews, posting on forums...

The other guys just wrote code. Eventually I got tired of keeping up with the crap (or maybe I just got older) and now I crank out code on my far-from-the-latest MacBook, running Mojave. shrug

It was fun stuff, but I could have spent that time (and money) more productively.