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Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by tshaddox on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @02:31PM (#31101047)
Consider the possibility that people can like Macs for reasons entirely unrelated to Apple's marketing tactics. Reasons can include things most people would agree are legitimate qualities to look for in computers, like build quality, display quality, keyboard quality, performance, battery life, etc. Those seem to me as more legitimate and less "fanatical" reasons to prefer computers from a particular manufacturer than the reason you provided, which is that you dislike some (certainly not all, and likely a vanishingly small portion) people who also buy computers from that same manufacturer.
Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by incanus77 on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @07:22PM (#31104344)
Here's a vote for a twenty year, seven Mac user who buys for those reasons, not the marketing or wanting to fit in. In fact, circa 2005, I got the side-eye for wanting to get on a cafe's wifi or, god forbid, print something at FedEx Kinko's from my Mac.

For me — FOR ME — it's a great platform that lets me focus on all sorts of things that I want to accomplish with computers.

Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by ozzythecat on Thursday April 21, 2022 @12:30PM (#31111600)
You hit the nail on the head. I love the physical build, performance, and overall quality. I also feel very comfortable in MacOS, I don’t like how Windows renders fonts, and I could just never get into Ubuntu.

In my case, I went from a 2015 to a 2019 MacBook Pro. I recognize there were significant keyboard issues in between those years, but my 2019 machine works very well. The only thing is it gets very hot when I’m compiling code. But for the most part I don’t use it on my lap, and this specific issue doesn’t bother me ad much as having a cheaper keyboard, lower quality display, etc.