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Are they comparable in price? What is it that you actually do with your computer?
I will be studying cyber security where we will do some script programming (but no heavy programming at all), otherwise I use it to stream movies online and watch Youtube. That’s pretty much what I do with my current school-prescribed computer.
I’ve worked on dev tooling in a fairly large company. Especially for cyber security, do not get a Mac. A lot of the tools are just different enough on a Mac that they will make your life much harder.
Oh, you want to study cybersecurity? Yeah forget what I said before, get a Framework, and if you don’t put Linux on it at least put WSL on it. Learn all you can.
cybersecurity really poibts to framework + linux
Just a note that virtualization is not available on Apple silicon (M1+) yet, so if you plan on running VMs like Kali, it won’t be possible.
What do you mean? Both ARM hypervisor and x86 virtualisation using UTM work great.
Sure it will, just get Kali for ARM. https://www.kali.org/docs/arm/
Get a refurb thinkpad(x1 carbon gen7 ish maybe) and run Linux if your in to cybersecurity.