On: Apple's all-new MacBook Pro

[aerocapture]

What I really want to do is buy one of these at about a 30% discount, sans MacOS, and run Kubuntu on it.

[speek → aerocapture]

but but but... OS X is really great! I like the *buntus, but I think that OS X is a little more polished and solid.

[rbanffy → speek]

It has no APT (well... it has but it's kind of a bolt-on solution). And no, ports is not an adequate substitute.

No APT is a deal-breaker for me. At least as my main work computer. But looks insanely great.

[unalone → speek]

Yeah. You don't get a Macbook just for the aesthetic - though the aesthetic is tremendous. You get it for the operating system.

[sunkencity → unalone]

well, it's a sexy machine to run linux on too, when you are too frustrated with manually compiling tarballs or fighting with the ports system.

[unalone → sunkencity]

True. And I'd imagine that the drivers for Mac computers are all completely covered in Linux, considering there's not, ahem, too much variety to pick from. So that's an advantage.

[axod → sunkencity]

Still using desktop software eh? ;)