These devices are only sensible if the UI of the OS knows how to scale; otherwise everything is tiny. From a brief Google search, Ubuntu does not know how to sc

These devices are only sensible if the UI of the OS knows how to scale; otherwise everything is tiny. From a brief Google search, Ubuntu does not know how to scale (http://askubuntu.com/questions/231646/is-ubuntu-12-10-optimized-for-retina-displays http://askubuntu.com/questions/231646/is-ubuntu-12-10-optimi...) so I don't think you would want to run Ubuntu on this.