I bought the first gen white MacBook when it came out. I was pretty sure I would like OS X, but having hardware that gave the option to go back was enough to sell me on it. I did briefly do boot camp to run Solidworks for my engineering degree, but otherwise the native Mac experience was good to me.

I had several Mac laptops over the decade that followed, but ultimately ended up back on a Windows 11 workstation with heavy WSL usage and a NUC and Thinkpad X1 both running Ubuntu in supporting roles.

So almost by accident, my time as a Mac user overlapped perfectly with the Intel era.