I'd stay away from Mac OS unless you know you're going to be using magnification for the long term, and even then, I'd wait for them to release machines with their own chips which are slated to start coming out within the next few months. Voiceover for Mac OS is not the lovely experience that Voiceover for iOS is. It's been languishing for quite some time now.

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So, laptops. How picky are you? Laptops are e a game of compromises. Thinkpads are quite competent machines, but most feature amplifiers that shut off to conserve power. This is problematic when using a screen reader or any fast TTS voice. Let's talk about Zoomtext. It's a buggy pile of shit. No way around that. Are you transitioning to a screen reader? If so, Zoomtext may not be worthwile for you. What types of features are you looking for? The Thinkpad x1 Carbon is a great machine if you don't need too much power. You'll just have to deal with that pesky amp problem, which blind people have created workarounds for.

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Personally, I use a Razer Blade 15 2020 Advanced because I make heavy use of multitasking, nerdy applications, want long battery, and it doesn't suffer from the amp sleep problem and has tons of ports. However, it's obscenely expensive. If you want something blingier than a Thinkpad, you could try one of the many gaming laptops out there. Razer does offer the Base Model which is noticeably cheaper and has discrete graphics, if that's important to you. The Surface line is also available from Microsoft, though I've heard sound quality on them is disappointing. One thing I've learned is that no manufacturer makes the perfect laptop and all of them will probably die in 5 or 6 years so that you have to spend more money.

I'm about 20/200, and I use a (2017) MacBook computer plus an Android phone because I only use zoom, and I don't use any kind of screen reader or voiceover/talkback features. The MacBook's built-in zoom and color inversion is easy and smooth like butter! I hated what a hog ZoomText and Magic were, and they were also kind of clunky. I switched over from Windows in my early twenties, and I've never looked back. With Android, I like how easy the two-finger zoom is, seems more intuitive than the iPhone options. However, because of some tech issues at my work (crazy boring long story), I am considering switching to an iPhone. I've tried going to the stores to get used to the zoom, but it's been really rough, and I just haven't found anyone who can vouch for that switch.

I'm a Windows-iPhone user. I was an Android user until a few weeks ago, and I still, to an extent, use my old phone. The biggest reason why I was using Android is because it allowed me to use my phone in my native language with a TTS in my native language, which IOS does not allow.

So, yeah. You can't go wrong with a Windows-iPhone combo, however be sure not to get a 2 ram PC or something, the screen reader will slow down and sometimes crash and it will just leave you frustrated. IMHO anything above 4 ram, preferably 8 is what you should be aiming at.