Ask HN: Bad software or bad hardware, the choice is yours
I never owned a MacBook and never used OS X, I have a 2011 Dell Latitude running Linux. I thought "3 years have passed since my laptop purchase, MacBooks are great but OS X not so much lately. I am happy with my experience with Linux, maybe I can get a new machine which is better than my current one instead of going for a MacBook".
What's historically the best type of laptop running Linux? It's a ThinkPad. But in 2015 they ship with 4GB RAM soldiered to the motherboard and running in single channel (T450s, X250). Bear in mind these are the newest ThinkPads that were announced today. The memory is upgradable to 8GB. Thanks, we already had this in 2011.
What's the point of the whole industry push for longer battery, powerful integrated graphics and creating the ultrabook specification only to ruin it in a small but important way.
Long story short - the PC vendors are trying really hard to make the worst machines they can think of and break things.
And then there's Apple making great hardware but failing on the software front (that's my impression reading about other people's experience). So... regardless of the hardware improvements the last few years, I think there's a "people" problem, teams failing to produce a coherent software and hardware package.
I think I will stick with my 3-year old laptop until it breaks (most likely the hinges). Then get a MacBook running OS X because it is still better than the alternatives.