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Re:Ask HN: Why do no other laptop manufacturers get it? by mhw on Thursday June 10, 2010 @12:45PM (#1420672)
The absence of a 1680x1050 screen option on the MacBook was one of the two reasons I didn't buy one when I last upgraded. Now I've just got to decide whether to sacrifice the freedom of Ubuntu for the polish of MacOS.
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Re:Ask HN: Why do no other laptop manufacturers get it? by kgelner on Thursday June 10, 2010 @01:33PM (#1420863)
Just compile needed UNIX software for MacOS, you lose no freedom running OS X as a base OS.

It's a real UNIX, it even ships with Bash...

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Re:Ask HN: Why do no other laptop manufacturers get it? by younata on Thursday June 10, 2010 @02:24PM (#1421087)
to be fair, you can customize the shell. I keep mine on the "professional" setting - black background, white text, tcsh shell.
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Re:Ask HN: Why do no other laptop manufacturers get it? by Xorlev on Thursday June 10, 2010 @03:10PM (#1421265)
You can always run bootcamp and keep Ubuntu too. :)
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