Joined a new company and requested a MacBook Pro, but they declined and instead issued me a brand-new ThinkPad X1 running Windows.

So, I went ahead and bought a MacBook Pro myself, set up all corporate apps (since the company runs M365 and mostly SaaS apps), and everything works seamlessly. My productivity is great—I don’t have to deal with the frustrations of Windows.

Now, once a week, I power up the ThinkPad X1, install patches and updates, then shut it down. The rest of the time, it just sits in the corner collecting dust along with all my other older Intel based MacBooks.

Out of pocket couple of grand, but the boost in my ability to deliver work more than makes up for that.