marklark

I got a refurbed 27" iMac with a 10-core i9 @3.7GHz last year.  With 128GB of RAM in it, I expect it to last me about 10 years.  (like my mid-2011 4-core i7 @2.94GHz)

For work, (compiling Docker-based React & python apps), it's much faster than the M1 Pro MacBook Pro my company gave me.  And much easier to look at.

A "pro" iMac with memory, screen size, and a lot of Mx cores would be very tempting.

From the MS article:

What options do I have instead of Visual Studio for Mac?

There are several alternative solutions to using Visual Studio for Mac:

Visual Studio Code with the new C# Dev Kit and related extensions...

The first paragraph says that they have 100-hour battery life...  You may want to correct that.