All of my MBPs have always been employer provided. Nothing against Apple, but it is expensive for my budget. Personally I still use my 2005-06 vintage (HA!) T43 which I bought second hand sometimes back. It works great, modular and easy to repair if needed. Linux + Thinkpad all the way!
My humble suggestion to anyone looking for "learning machine" is to get an old Thinkpad or Dell. These are/were "workhorses", built to be worked upon for atleast a decade if not more. Ask the fine folks in NASA. They belong to the golden age of laptops of 2000s and early 2010s. Before iPads etc started to replace them in workplaces. They were bulk produced and bulk retired. Meaning they will be cheap as hell to buy.
And, oh, they keyboards are great! Just be sure to get a machine which was a bit "lightly used".
Also, install linux for all your shell needs. There any many guides and projects to run linux on "vintage" laptops. As a bonus you will get an environment that will be close to where you will run your code for real.
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All of my MBPs have always been employer provided. Nothing against Apple, but it is expensive for my budget. Personally I still use my 2005-06 vintage (HA!) T43 which I bought second hand sometimes back. It works great, modular and easy to repair if needed. Linux + Thinkpad all the way!
My humble suggestion to anyone looking for "learning machine" is to get an old Thinkpad or Dell. These are/were "workhorses", built to be worked upon for atleast a decade if not more. Ask the fine folks in NASA. They belong to the golden age of laptops of 2000s and early 2010s. Before iPads etc started to replace them in workplaces. They were bulk produced and bulk retired. Meaning they will be cheap as hell to buy.
And, oh, they keyboards are great! Just be sure to get a machine which was a bit "lightly used".
Also, install linux for all your shell needs. There any many guides and projects to run linux on "vintage" laptops. As a bonus you will get an environment that will be close to where you will run your code for real.