re: Are macs really that much better than windows pc’s?

Nah. I get all my texts pretty reliably.
I bought an m1 mini for fun. The feature worked well enough that I replaced my XPS with a dying battery with a new Air. The phone connect wasn’t bad, but it would hang up/require restart/not connect. It was probably user error. But the ability to see texts and calls on screen in patient rooms (I carry my laptop room to room) + battery as long as any has been nice.

I would probably have been close to as happy otherwise with a surface laptop.


ETA: clarification- if you have an iPhone, you can send text and iMessage from the iMessage app (not only iMessage to other Apple devices). I don’t believe there is any support, first or third party, for using an android phone to do anything particularly useful with OSX