A little secret.
When I was an Apple field engineer in 1987 I delayed buying my first home to buy Apple stock when Steve Jobs was bought back in following the Pepsi period. From memory the stock was $26. It paid for the Coupe.
I still have several windows machines and a Sun e420r Server in the pile. Some stuff cannot be done on Mac without becoming a pain.
iCloud, default is only 50Gb of storage, it is worth budgeting £2.99/month to get the 200Gb bump for storage if you have a lot of files, still fairly good value.
The family subscriptions allow you to share your licences among several people (not just family) so clubbing together may occur. You don't share private data or other key stuff but they get access to things like Apple Music, Health etc.
