Ask HN: Will you really move away from Apple hardware?

No, not laptops. I do run a few hackintosh desktops though. Macbooks are still the best (unless you are a heavy gamer). Over the years of having used a variety of machines, I haven't found anything close.

Build/Reliability: Probably more reliable than my IBM-era thinkpads. Excellent build quality, NVME, good battery life, slim aluminum frame, and one of the better notebook displays with retina. Trackpad is the best in the industry period, no one has anything as good or responsive.

Support: Very big support network. I can walk into a store and get a loaner, fix, or a brand new machine. If you don't have your own IT department this is a huge value to your startup/small business.

OS: If you want to develop for iOS there really isn't an option, so that's not a fair comparison. However, Apple supports practically every professional level software suites (Adobe, FCP, etc). OS X is also certified Unix with a polished ui and has pretty good compatibility with most of Linux/GNU with homebrew.

remember that article a day ago complaining that they used old processors? that's another benefit. microsoft shipped skylake with an experimental sleep state (one hp refused to turn on) and it was a disaster. not being cutting edge is how apple will keep its hardware "just working."

now if apple would only add a trackpoint :(

I would do so only if the non-Windows laptop were a Surface Pro or a Surface Book. Windows 10 has Powershell and a real Linux subsystem now and I can use the Surface as an iPad Pro when needed.

Every other Windows laptop is crap, IMO.

That's a bad analogy I discovered that I can write in Bernie and have a solid conscience knowing I didn't choose the corrupt politician, the rapist, the hippie Bernie wannabe who has no clue about actually running anything in government, or the always seemingly-high libertarian. - I really wanted to like Jill Stein and vote for but couldn't...I voted democrat for all other tickets in hopes that they were more progressive in general.

As for the new mac stuff I've never been a mac fan, not a win fan either.. I'd much rather have my arch linux builds any day, but I'm not a hardcore gamer or graphic designer either. I'm just a laravel / elixir developer. But I do feel like Apple's lost their way there's just too much negative 'mojo' in the air, they need to pivot and embrace the hard core techies who used to love them, or they'll become irrelevant and it'll be like the 90's again.

Google and microsoft have both had pretty exciting launches this year, there's lots of amazing tech going on in the world today, but when the majority of the stories are negative that can have an effect maybe not today or this quarter, but down the line in 2018 for example.

Not me, I'm sticking with Apple even though I mostly run Win10 on my Macbooks. I looked at the alternatives and they are either crappy build quality, huge heavy bricks, or just as expensive as the Macbooks. Might as well stick with Apple since I trust their hardware.