Ask HN: Disappointed by the new Macbook, what alternatives do we have?

What's the use case?

If it's just for general web development, my plan is to buy a used 2015 MBP, but with AppleCare until mid-2018 or later, and re-roll the dice in two years.

Whoever builds an easy hackintosh with metabox level specs will have my business

No terminal is on par with iTerm. I was using Linux and *BSD for years, used many terminals, and of all iTerm is bread and butter (and with that font rendering and retina screen, nothing comes close). I would recommend to evaluate your needs, but be objective! If you can live with 16GB of RAM (I can, I do not do anything that would require me to use 32GB of RAM) then buy last year model. I have it, amazing machine.

And maybe it would be better to hold on to your MBP, and buy Chromebook, at least to test the water with Linux (or whatever OS you want to use). Install them on small machine, setup few essential programs to you and use them for few weeks. Why am I telling you this? Well I really appreciate some things on macOS, which will keep me glued to it for few more years at least. (iTerm is one of those things)

I find Razer Blade laptop as a good replacement for Macbook pro. Also Pc Specialist has custom laptops - https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/laptops/

I'm running a HP Spectre 13. Couldn't be happier