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I use an Air as my primary dev machine. I love it, but my allegiance has nothing to do with OS X. In fact, I would kill for a laptop with Air's form factor that

I use an Air as my primary dev machine. I love it, but my allegiance has nothing to do with OS X. In fact, I would kill for a laptop with Air's form factor that was running Ubuntu as the primary OS.

there 15y ago
i'm awaiting the asus ux21 (and wondering why the article didn't even mention it, as it was, i believe, the first laptop to be shown in the new "ultrabook" category): http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/30/asus-outs-ux21-ultrathin-laptop-with-up-to-core-i7-cpu-video-ha/ http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/30/asus-outs-ux21-ultrathin-... linux and other operating systems on the newest macbook air are currently being held up by a bug in the intel video driver (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39533 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39533) but all of the other hardware should work fine under ubuntu (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1810275 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1810275).
Mizza 15y ago
I am in this exact same situation. Looking forward to the influx of 'Ultrabooks.'
bergie 15y ago
The Air runs Ubuntu pretty well. I only saw OS X on my 2010 11" on the initial boot and never since :-)
- 2mur 15y ago
  How's the battery life compared to OSX?
  - bergie 15y ago
    Slightly worse, I get about 3-4 hours.
hencq 15y ago
I would prefer to run Ubuntu as well. Unfortunately it looks like Optimus support won't be coming soon, so I'm starting to lean towards biting the bullet and switching to OS X.