As mentioned previously, I generally lean towards Apple computers for my personal computing needs… But I work with Windows professionally and I’m also a bit of a gamer – so I’ve kind of oscillated between the two platforms for decades now.
For example, three years ago I built myself a no-holds-barred bleeding-edge Windows rig based on the systems I build for work…

The above is a Supermicro X12SPL-F mainboard, Intel Xeon Gold 6312U processor, 128G of DDR4-3200, and a Zotac RTX 3090. And in 2022 this thing was the 1200 watt ultimate beast of a computer.
The problem with the machine was three-fold: it consumed about 400 watts at idle and welding current at full tilt, was essentially a space-heater and would raise the temp in my office to unbearable levels which prompted running the central air more often – so even more electrical cost, and Windows 10 was nearing end-of-life and Windows 11 is a total travesty…
I mean, I dislike Win11 so much that in 2023 I spent about a month turning Server 2022 into a workstation OS just to get around the Win10 expiry issue… And while I got it to work – mostly – the effort required to hack drivers and whatnot prompted me to sell the Xeon-based machine above and just go buy an M2 Ultra Mac Studio.
Before the fedora crowd chimes in – I use a lot of Linux professionally as well, and I rather like Linux – in the same way someone who has to haul 80,000 pounds of bananas likes a semi truck… Linux is a great workhorse, but I’d rather not use it as my daily driver.
Anyway, the M2 Ultra was an exceptional machine that outperformed the Xeon computer above in pretty much every way, while using a max of 270 watts… So, when the M3 Ultra was announced I upgraded on the spot.

That there is my current rig. An M3 Ultra Studio with 96GB of ram and 1TB of storage.
It’s sitting on a K&N V-Rod motorcycle air filter with an adapter I 3D printed. This does a great job of keeping dust out of the machine without impeding airflow.
The monitor is the 27″ Apple Studio display with is amazing as well. And behind the air filter is a Thunderbolt 4 M.2 adapter holding my 4TB storage drive.
The Liebert UPS supplies backup power to the computer and monitor, and currently shows 71 minutes of runtime because the computer and monitor pull so little power it just shows zero watts output most of the time…
And yes, my desktop speakers are a pair of floor-standing B&W DM640i powered by an Onkyo TX-SR353. So the Mac sounds pretty good too.