I purchased a Dell XPS-13 through the Sputnik program ( http://dell.com/sputnik http://dell.com/sputnik ) and Ubuntu was pre-loaded, it worked fine. I did not

I purchased a Dell XPS-13 through the Sputnik program ( http://dell.com/sputnik http://dell.com/sputnik ) and Ubuntu was pre-loaded, it worked fine. I did not like the mouse much, but I don't like any of the touchpads - I bought it specifically for the Sputnik program, not the hardware - but I found it overall to be very nice and useable. I am generally a ThinkPad fan. It was fast, could run development environments in VirtualBox well, had a long battery life, etc. Even the speakers and microphone where better than I was used to for Skype and etc. Unfortunately it was stolen before I ever had the chance to get involved the Sputnik stuff. It was kind of expensive as laptops of that size go, and I have to decide if I should get another one or not.