Overall they are both great companies and home to some very happy engineers. What matters more is the team you'd be joining. My advice it to talk to the hiring managers from each company and see who you think is better aligned to your style of work. If you could visit them and meet the teams in person, that would be even better, and chances are, you'd find this becoming a much simpler decision.
Bait and switch title. Most of the comparisons in the article are contrived because the laptops being compared are very different types of machines. Even so, the article itself lists quite a few areas where the new laptop doesn't come close to beating the Macbook (e.g. battery life). All that is followed by the admission "I also haven't tested the LaVie Z in person, so it could be a crappy computer, who knows".
If this looked even remotely useful to you, do check out Distill (https://distill.io). Distill can be used on most websites (including HN), can send you notifications, and doesn't need a local browser (or access to "Read and change all your data on the websites you visit").
Disclaimer: I know the developer personally. But if there ever was an appropriate plug, this one is.