> I'd rather inherit a repo written with an agent and a good engineer in the loop than one written by a questionable quality contractor who left three years ago, with no tests, and a spaghetti mess of classes and methods.
Not sure why article compares modern Apple laptops with 17 years old ThinkPad. Macbook Pros were quite serviceable until 2012. They also are dual-bootable and run Linux quite fine.
I have one from 2009 with 2 SSDs serving as a NAS.
Oh, false dilemma :/