I used an apple desktop for a while, 2009 and it served me well, but now had to upgrade a little and being a little older need bigger screen and the ability to edit many photo's.  I got the new Mac for me, and wanted to be able to put more ram in to keep apps up all the time.  The ports on the back were also a big seller for me and why I didn't go with M3 was memory and back ports.  Cost was second and did check out PC side and for my needs a desktop wouldn't work.  I do have laptop PC with Windows 11 and happy with it, but the Mac better for me even older, installed macOS Sonoma 14.5 with no problems.  I would buy from this company again and they exceed my needs.  One last note more than 15K photos.