I got a Dell Latitude E5520 (http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/hardware/201011-6894/ http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/hardware/201011-6894/) about 18 month

I got a Dell Latitude E5520 (http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/hardware/201011-6894/ http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/hardware/201011-6894/) about 18 months ago. The screen is better than what I could get from Apple at the time. I wish I had gotten a Mac Pro instead, mostly for stupid hardware details like the sensitive power contact (the mac magnetic one is superior) and the too sensitive trackpad. Apple is the only competition for Thinkpads, imho. If I had gotten a Mac I planned to run Linux in a virtual machine all the time, mostly because apt is superior to the native alternatives. Why is that not an alternative for you?