Just wanted to point out that I had a macbook for a couple years on Linux. When it died, I decided to try other ones. I was very disappointed for lots of differ

Just wanted to point out that I had a macbook for a couple years on Linux. When it died, I decided to try other ones. I was very disappointed for lots of different small reasons - but can be summarized as "it felt cheap". Cheap trackpad, not great touch on keyboard, no backlight on keys. Anyhow, 3 weeks ago I bought an air.. formatted everything and put back Arch on it and loving it. It's a few hundred bucks more than your 1000$ but I think it's worth every penny. Some like to say (and I believed them) that you can have something as great for half the price.. but that's just not true. It may be cheaper, but they've screwed on parts that are not necessarily obvious.