I joined HN during the Ballmer/Jobs era. Back then the community seemed predominantly Apple and [rightfully so] very weary of Microsoft. Getting to that point t

I joined HN during the Ballmer/Jobs era. Back then the community seemed predominantly Apple and [rightfully so] very weary of Microsoft. Getting to that point took Apple a huge amount of work; I still remember the days when Apple purely existed for Adobe and DAWs. Apple had to climb a mountain of consumer apathy in order to displace Microsoft. The hardware specs have never been great (which is why I personally never made the switch), but Apple was good enough for nearly everything and I could never argue against Apple build quality. The tables seem to have switched. Microsoft is putting out some unbelievably good hardware, my MSFT friends have surfaces and I drool over them (without worrying about breaking the keyboard :) ). My Dell isn't that bad, certainly superior to anything Apple has on offer (the touchpad sucks as always, but I have a bluetooth trackball). Windows is now a great OS. Microsoft is now facing the very same mountain of consumer apathy that Apple faced. It does seem to be changing. There was an Ask HN thread yesterday asking about setups, and the amount of "Install Windows 10" or "Install Linux" I saw on HN was utterly bizarre.