Can you elaborate? I never had a Mac device before this year, but it can do all the document processing (M$ Office) I need for work/school, almost all audio-related stuff (DAWs and VSTs), and video/photo (ugh I know but Adobe) that I need it to, even though its a brand new chip architecture. It can't do games but I have a M$ desktop just for that and for some rendering stuff

Windows advertising features were bugging me, so I tried to install MacOS on my computer, but Apple told me that I would have to purchase different hardware from them directly if I wanted to run their software.

Seems like MacOS does not run on hardware that is not sold by Apple.

It does; just not out of the box. They only include drivers for their hardware; You have to compile your own kexts. The EULA, however, does “prevent” you from doing such a thing, but unless you’re selling “Hackintoshes”, Apple isn’t going to care.

The age of the Hackintosh is nearing its end though, due to Apple Silicon.

Well we did have PearPC even before they went Intel. I used it a bit to see if I could do everything I needed before I bought a Mac.

It was horribly slow but something more optimized like Rosetta might help.

It'll be a much harder game though for sure.

I work with numerous companies as a part of my job and get to see a lot of their browser windows via screenshare.

Many are MS-only shops, but a large and growing section are hybrid or in some cases Mac-only.

The rise of cloud (ie, OS-independent) solutions has had it's impact: Windows isn't required for the vast populace (MS still takes it's tax via Office365) of business workers.

The next frontier is Chrome as the overlord of the browser realm.

I mean, obviously it depends on the work - as if macbooks weren't standard issue at many companies ostensibly doing some kind of work

if your cad software or whatever doesn't work with your OS of choice I'd take it up with the vendor