I can answer this a little, for sensible reasons (the team I run at new job was entirely on Macs) I gave in and chose the 16" Macbook Pro over the Thinkpad/Fedora I'd have defaulted to normally (since my personal laptop is a nicely specced T series I still use that for personal stuff at home).
Simply put the touchpad on the 16" Mac feels like its from the future, recognition is perfect, multi-finger gestures are consistent and always recorded so you can flip around between workspaces and after a day or two it becomes so ingrained that it gets out the way and you stop even thinking about it, it becomes fluent in a way other touchpads don't.
On a recent Thinkpad with Linux I just use the TrackPoint, I've never gotten the touchpad to be more than merely acceptable.
Frankly I still prefer working on my Thinkpad at home on my stuff but the touchpad on the Mac has ruined every other touchpad I interact with entirely.
Generally I like the Macbook and OSX as someone who hadn't ever touched it til a few months ago is a pleasant OS for development, there isn't anything in there I really hate, it feels like a linux distro with a nice DE/UI mostly.
Oh and I really like iTerm2, that's a really nice piece of software.
Simply put the touchpad on the 16" Mac feels like its from the future, recognition is perfect, multi-finger gestures are consistent and always recorded so you can flip around between workspaces and after a day or two it becomes so ingrained that it gets out the way and you stop even thinking about it, it becomes fluent in a way other touchpads don't.
On a recent Thinkpad with Linux I just use the TrackPoint, I've never gotten the touchpad to be more than merely acceptable.
Frankly I still prefer working on my Thinkpad at home on my stuff but the touchpad on the Mac has ruined every other touchpad I interact with entirely.
Generally I like the Macbook and OSX as someone who hadn't ever touched it til a few months ago is a pleasant OS for development, there isn't anything in there I really hate, it feels like a linux distro with a nice DE/UI mostly.
Oh and I really like iTerm2, that's a really nice piece of software.