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They ought to buy Canonical and build a laptop with a full fledged operating system. Then I won't have to keep choosing between installing linux on crappy Windo

They ought to buy Canonical and build a laptop with a full fledged operating system. Then I won't have to keep choosing between installing linux on crappy Windows machines or buying expensive macs.

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tdb7893 10y ago
Hopefully with the windows subsystem for linux I can just have a cheap windows computer that works with linux tools.
tbrock 10y ago
Isnt the "Macs are expensive" meme getting old? The prices are actually very competitive and I'm not talking about vs upgrading the ram in your system 76 laptop.
- RugnirViking 10y ago
  No it will continue to be used until the price is closer to the price of similar spec windows laptops. Where I live at the moment its anywhere from 2x to 1.5x the exact same components in a shell not made by apple
  - kristjansson 10y ago
    I'd love to buy a competitive device that's 1/2-2/3 the price of a MacBook, but I've never seen one at that price point. The models that come up in these threads usually lack a quality screen, long battery life, durable construction, or good support for Linux / unix user land tools or some combination thereof. Linux subsystem for windows may be starting to address the last point, but I haven't had the chance to use it yet.
    - rayiner 10y ago
      The closest competitors, like the XPS series and the Surface Book, are nearly as much as a Mac or more. The closest XPS 13 to the bottom touchbar 13" MBP costs $150 more. Microsoft sells $2,000+ Surface Books with only 8GB of RAM.
      - OrwellianChild 10y ago
        Am I doing this wrong? Looks like the XPS 13 with similar spec is $1,220 [1] vs. $1,800 [2] for the Macbook Touchbar? [1] https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01LQTXED8 https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01LQTXED8 [2] http://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro http://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro
        rayiner 10y ago
        I went to Dell.com: http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/productdetails/xps-13-9360-laptop/dncwt5122hv2 http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/productdetails/xps-13-9360-la....
    - amalag 10y ago
      It's true, the higher end windows laptops are very comparable to Macbook prices. People get confused because Macbook's are only high end and people see windows machine in a full range
rasz_pl 10y ago
They would shut it down in a year after slowly realizing its not able to generate "acceptable" profit. Google is too rich to get the "small" below 1$Billion ideas right. They cant even manage to capitalize on their self driving cars, clearly a multi $billion dollar market.

They ought to buy Canonical and build a laptop with a full fledged operating system. Then I won't have to keep choosing between installing linux on crappy Windows machines or buying expensive macs.

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tdb7893 10y ago

Hopefully with the windows subsystem for linux I can just have a cheap windows computer that works with linux tools.

tbrock 10y ago

Isnt the "Macs are expensive" meme getting old? The prices are actually very competitive and I'm not talking about vs upgrading the ram in your system 76 laptop.

RugnirViking 10y ago
No it will continue to be used until the price is closer to the price of similar spec windows laptops. Where I live at the moment its anywhere from 2x to 1.5x the exact same components in a shell not made by apple
- kristjansson 10y ago
  I'd love to buy a competitive device that's 1/2-2/3 the price of a MacBook, but I've never seen one at that price point. The models that come up in these threads usually lack a quality screen, long battery life, durable construction, or good support for Linux / unix user land tools or some combination thereof. Linux subsystem for windows may be starting to address the last point, but I haven't had the chance to use it yet.
  - rayiner 10y ago
    The closest competitors, like the XPS series and the Surface Book, are nearly as much as a Mac or more. The closest XPS 13 to the bottom touchbar 13" MBP costs $150 more. Microsoft sells $2,000+ Surface Books with only 8GB of RAM.
    - OrwellianChild 10y ago
      Am I doing this wrong? Looks like the XPS 13 with similar spec is $1,220 [1] vs. $1,800 [2] for the Macbook Touchbar? [1] https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01LQTXED8 https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01LQTXED8 [2] http://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro http://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro
      - rayiner 10y ago
        I went to Dell.com: http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/productdetails/xps-13-9360-laptop/dncwt5122hv2 http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/productdetails/xps-13-9360-la....
  - amalag 10y ago
    It's true, the higher end windows laptops are very comparable to Macbook prices. People get confused because Macbook's are only high end and people see windows machine in a full range

rasz_pl 10y ago

They would shut it down in a year after slowly realizing its not able to generate "acceptable" profit. Google is too rich to get the "small" below 1$Billion ideas right. They cant even manage to capitalize on their self driving cars, clearly a multi $billion dollar market.