Apple computer is much more appealing for researchers in Math, Physics, CS. Once you compose your paper in English and Latex, you won’t need Word or Powerpoint or NoteExpress or Zotero. As long as your printer supports the mac OS system, it will be of no pain to switch to the Mac platform.
transform path illustrates below:
MS Word ->Latex
Powerpoint->Latex Beamer
NoteExpress, Zotero->Bibtex
Others:
Excel->LibreOffice
Mail: Mozilla Thunderbird
Calendar: So many options out there
C compiler: Mac has its back-end clang for its use.