I’ve had the Asus Chromebook Flip for the last 7ish years. I’ve loved it. Had to replace the battery once since it had swelled. Well I’m getting into major specific computer science classes and ChromeOs doesn’t run programming software well. I’ve been using Replit which has been kind funky

So I went to Best Buy looked at a bunch of computers. I like the Windows surface 13.5 inch laptop with the 16 Gb Ram and intel 12th gen i7 core processor a lot. I really wanted a Mac but the ram is terrible it seems for the price point. So idk. Thoughts? Suggestions?