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> The launch hardware costs $1,549 For the same price you can get a MacBook Air with a 1440x900 screen.

graue 14y ago
For a much lower price, actually. $1140: http://www.amazon.com/Apple-MacBook-MD231LL-13-3-Inch-VERSION/dp/B005CWJB5G http://www.amazon.com/Apple-MacBook-MD231LL-13-3-Inch-VERSIO... Or $1430 (still over a hundred dollars less) with twice as big of an SSD: http://www.amazon.com/Apple-MacBook-MD232LL-13-3-Inch-VERSION/dp/B00746YD24 http://www.amazon.com/Apple-MacBook-MD232LL-13-3-Inch-VERSIO... This XPS does have 8GB RAM (versus 4), but that's the only big advantage that sticks out to me.
jonhohle 14y ago
Which also seems to have very good hardware support: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookAir4-2 https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookAir4-2
- JulianK 14y ago
  I think 4-2 is the 2011 Macbook Air. I've been thinking about getting the 2012 and putting Ubuntu on there, but there seem to be a number of semi-unsupported steps required to resolve kernel panics, you have to disable apic support and various other issues.
  - graue 14y ago
    I regret that there's no good documentation for installing on the 5-2 (2012 13" Air), something I have to take some responsibility for since I run Ubuntu on such a laptop and didn't share my experiences. In short, most things work fine on Ubuntu 12.10. I first tried using this guide[1] to install Ubuntu 12.04, but had lots of gnarly install issues. I then tried with the regular 'amd64+mac' graphical installer for Ubuntu 12.10 beta, and got it running easily. I was able to ignore most of [1] except for installing and configuring macfanctld, and making the touchpad perform decently using the advice in [2]. (Unlike the author of [2], I hate tap-to-click, so I turned the TapButton[1-3] settings off.) There are still a few nagging issues I haven't fixed. The Air boots with brightness at the max and won't let me turn it down until logged in, and it loses my touchpad settings on reboot, so I have a little bash script I run to fix them. [1]: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2039799 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2039799 [2]: http://uselessuseofcat.com/?p=74 http://uselessuseofcat.com/?p=74

graue 14y ago

For a much lower price, actually. $1140: http://www.amazon.com/Apple-MacBook-MD231LL-13-3-Inch-VERSION/dp/B005CWJB5G http://www.amazon.com/Apple-MacBook-MD231LL-13-3-Inch-VERSIO... Or $1430 (still over a hundred dollars less) with twice as big of an SSD: http://www.amazon.com/Apple-MacBook-MD232LL-13-3-Inch-VERSION/dp/B00746YD24 http://www.amazon.com/Apple-MacBook-MD232LL-13-3-Inch-VERSIO... This XPS does have 8GB RAM (versus 4), but that's the only big advantage that sticks out to me.

jonhohle 14y ago

Which also seems to have very good hardware support: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookAir4-2 https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookAir4-2

JulianK 14y ago
I think 4-2 is the 2011 Macbook Air. I've been thinking about getting the 2012 and putting Ubuntu on there, but there seem to be a number of semi-unsupported steps required to resolve kernel panics, you have to disable apic support and various other issues.
- graue 14y ago
  I regret that there's no good documentation for installing on the 5-2 (2012 13" Air), something I have to take some responsibility for since I run Ubuntu on such a laptop and didn't share my experiences. In short, most things work fine on Ubuntu 12.10. I first tried using this guide[1] to install Ubuntu 12.04, but had lots of gnarly install issues. I then tried with the regular 'amd64+mac' graphical installer for Ubuntu 12.10 beta, and got it running easily. I was able to ignore most of [1] except for installing and configuring macfanctld, and making the touchpad perform decently using the advice in [2]. (Unlike the author of [2], I hate tap-to-click, so I turned the TapButton[1-3] settings off.) There are still a few nagging issues I haven't fixed. The Air boots with brightness at the max and won't let me turn it down until logged in, and it loses my touchpad settings on reboot, so I have a little bash script I run to fix them. [1]: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2039799 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2039799 [2]: http://uselessuseofcat.com/?p=74 http://uselessuseofcat.com/?p=74