I love my new 2018 MBP but.........

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What hardware problems? Like what? I’m genuinely interested.
 
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Heh! That link goes to a page that says no matches. So I guess there aren't any hardware problems noted.

Seriously, though, every computer company has some units with issues. I have a 2011 MBP 17" that had the GPU failure. But what I find about sites like this one, where we provide help for free, is that people who come here come with a problem, so looking here it would appear that Apple products ALL have problems. The reality is that the vast majority of Apple's devices work just fine, with no major issues. You said:
Also what i read in this forum many are having hardware failures with their Macs, so hardware failures don't just happen to non Apple computers.
One cannot take from this forum that "many" are having hardware failures because while many of the folks come here with hardware issues, they are not really "many" in the global Apple scale of things. Nor has anyone here ever said that other manufacturers are the only ones with problems. Apple quality is generally much better than the average PC maker, mostly because they limit the options on their systems to be able to ensure quality control. If you try to do everything everyone ever wanted, you end up doing very little of it really well. However, if you make a few designs and really focus on using high quality components to build those designs, the failure rates are much lower. Not zero, but lower. It's a little like Rolls Royce vs Ford. Yes, RR can make a lemon, but it's really, really rare because they put so many hours into the design and manufacture of one car. Ford, on the other hand, makes millions of cars of all kinds and makes them more quickly, so a greater percentage of them have quality issues. Not picking on Ford, the same argument can be applied to any of the larger automobile manufacturers. That focus on quality over quantity is why Apple rarely has the majority share of the market in units sold. I did a quick search and Mac sales in 2017 were about 6.5% of market share. Lenovo's was close to 20%, as was HP.

So, Apple focuses on quality, to be the Rolls Royce, while Lenovo and HP are happy to be the Fords. And that choice is good for the consumer. When I was a business consultant, I told many boardrooms that the choice was to be Saks Fifth Avenue or Walmart--to sell one handbag for $10,000 or sell 1,000 handbags for $10. Both make $10,000 in revenue, but the Saks model has higher margin for a higher risk of not selling that one bag. Apple bet that quality would trump quantity, and so far, that bet is paying off nicely.
 

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As I have already said this forum caters to the needs of a small percentage of users who have problems (mostly software) unless you include devices who have simply outlived their lifespan very few are hardware problems. There are estimated to be 1.3 billion Apple Mac devices in use worldwide. The total number of users represented in these forums and others hardly indicate any sort of problem as a percentage of a figure that big.
 

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