Every time a pro-apple macbook thread appears on Hacker News, there descends a horde of Apple haters. In this case, the linked story was actually about someone moving back to Linux from Mac, and the commenters still make it about how Macbooks can’t be / aren’t that good.
This is my observation:
Common things in all these Pro-Apple threads:
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MacBook users who have/are using non-Apple laptops find the average work-issued Intel laptops to be just meh or worse.
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People that only buy some exclusive Lenovo, Framework laptops (that are not that common (e.g: in US)) refuse to acknowledge the positive experience of MacBook owners.
In my own personal experience: I have had only 3 personal MacBookAir/MBPs since 2006 (and the previous i5 MBA is perfectly functional after a battery replacement and a HDD upgrade - sitting next to me running Mint Linux, that I plan to hand off to my 10yo.)
In the meantime, I’ve also had 4 other MBPs and 3 windows laptops through work.
In no way and form, the intel laptops were/are better than the MacBooks on average.