Apple gets a lot of shit that it deserves. Making phones that (subjectively) may bend, touch screens that give up, keyboards that also give up, and many more incidents are just a small part of some of the reasons that Apple has been, in my opinion, anti-consumer for the past 10 years. That being said, its hard to try to target Applee as if other brands are a paragon of virtue; They’re not, they just dont get the same attention and adoration as apple. So, when it comes down to picking a computer OS to use, I boil it down to what I need to use the computer for and if I can do what I need it to do within a specific budget. For the purposes of video editing (and audio work), The apple pro suite combined with the MacBook has given me the ultimate flexibility in selecting the equipment I use.
When deciding on a laptop for editing purposes, you have to pay close attention usually as using a low core count processor or one with low ram or a mediocre GPU would cause performance in some aspect to be degraded severely. The most common one is the processor, which effects rendering and encoding of the video. Next would be the memory, which normally causes hiccups as data is sent to virtual (i.e.: your Hard Drive/SSD) memory if there isn't any space on your physical memory. For some reason, Final cut does not care about these things; in fact, it laughs at things like low memory or shit processors. Final cut is so optimized that up until 2 weeks ago I have been running a MacBook Pro from 2009. A 10-year-old MacBook Pro with a Core 2 Duo and 4GB of ram is able to edit videos like a boss.
It rarely if ever hiccups when scrubbing through clips in the timeline, with the occasional dropped frame during playback. In addition, it renders pretty quickly when compared to quad-core Macbooks I've used (though this part is where the age of the computer really shows). Memory usage maxes out on occasion but more often than not I can have another program in the background and be fine. Had I upgraded the memory to 8GB, this wouldn’t even be an issue. Even if the system was crippled trying to make edit a video, the proxy/optimized media options for final cut projects makes the footage even more lightweight and when done, there is virtually no frame drops or lag when scrubbing through the timeline (though this option almost doubles the size of your library, so I would suggest purchasing external media to keep your projects on.
**I have since switched to a 2014 i7 MacBook Air, which is a big upgrade from what I had in a couple of ways. The first being having 8GB of ram, which has eliminated any freeze ups I had while multitasking. The second thing is the i7 processor, as the 2 extra threads from yperthreading help a ton while exporting footage and encoding. This is the real beauty of Final cut. Apple laptops as of late have become more and more compromised as decent "pro" machines while also being more expensive. As a creator on a budget, if the cool factor of being an apple sheep isn't enough to push you to browse eBay for your next MacBook of yesteryear, then excellent compatibility with shit hardware should.**