James is doin the machine swap and has a great question

Hi Chris and Mike,

Big fan of the show.  Wonder if you can give me your view on this if you're talking about Macs again.  I run arts and entertainment venues and use a Mac as my daily driver for all sorts of things - general admin work, CAD, illustrator, photoshop, Logic and other audio production, and a bit of coding and SQL work.  I have just ordered a new M1 Macbook Pro Max to replace my 2020 Macbook Pro i5 2Ghz / 16mb.

I need another machine to run Windows primarily to do some report writing work for one of the platforms we use that has a backend tool that's Windows only.  Normally if I was upgrading a Mac I would have run it out for longer and still expect to get decent resale value to offset the cost of replacing it, but in this case I'm wondering whether the gulf between the recent Intel macs and the M1 is so great that it would make more sense to keep the 2020 Macbook primarily to dual boot to Windows and Linux rather than try and sell it at the same time as needing to buy a PC.  Do you think this is a good approach, or is there a better solution and saving to be had in selling and buying something else - how does a 2020 Macbook Pro stack up against PC laptops on the market?