Complaining about Apple and the MacBook Pro has become a pretty dominant topic on Hacker News from the last few months. I really do think this negativity about the product has become excessive, and it's the first time I've personally been annoyed about something like this on HN in four years of reading the site more or less daily.

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Since my comment is abrasive -- much more so than normal for me here on HN -- I figured it was worth it for me to put some more effort into this and provide some evidence. I easily came up with the following list of topics here from the last month:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13315262

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13244357

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13251401

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13253390

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13157832

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13172903

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13214754

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13164534

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13220623

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13217008

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13337727 (note that, while the headline is a bit general, much of the discussion is related to the new MBP)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13169060

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13185428

I just stopped after this point. There were more.