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Re:Install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on MacBookPro14,1 by heelix on Saturday April 25, 2020 @09:38AM (#22978001)
The screen and the track pad are the best out there. From a coding perspective, the Mac is one of the few 16:10 ratio screens still out there, which means you get a bit more vertical height than 99% of the other 16:9 ratio resolutions. While 16:9 makes for better movie watching, coding/surfing/etc is far better on the taller screen. As a bonus, it is a really quality screen too.

I'm less enamored with the rest. My daily driver laptop is a 32G i9 from 2018(?). While I have enough RAM to run a couple docker containers, most of the folks I work with are stuck with the 16G version, which are constantly out of resources and have no upgrade plan. For being a 'pro' spec machine, it does not have the cooling it needs to be pushed like I do.

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Re:Install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on MacBookPro14,1 by ekianjo on Saturday April 25, 2020 @10:46AM (#22978482)
> The screen and the track pad are the best out there.

Aren't most Mac laptops screens glossy though? I don't really care how good the screen is if it acts like a huge mirror all the time.

As for the trackpad, if you are proficient with the keyboard (or use a tiling wm) it does not really matter anymore.

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Re:Install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on MacBookPro14,1 by mmcnl on Saturday April 25, 2020 @12:46PM (#22979337)
There's glossy and there's glossy. MacBook screens are laminated and they're the least reflective kind of glossy screens available.
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Re:Install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on MacBookPro14,1 by read_if_gay_ on Saturday April 25, 2020 @10:59AM (#22978614)
The screens aren’t matte, but they have a pretty decent anti-glare coating.

There’s also no way around using the trackpad sometimes. Using i3 and Vim keybindings wherever possible, I still need my trackpad enough that its relatively poor quality is annoying.

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Re:Install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on MacBookPro14,1 by 1over137 on Saturday April 25, 2020 @11:22AM (#22978786)
>The screens aren’t matte, but they have a pretty decent anti-glare coating.

I guess it must be subjective, because I find they are horribly glossy. I'm still using an old matte Macbook for this reason.

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Re:Install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on MacBookPro14,1 by proverbialbunny on Saturday April 25, 2020 @01:29PM (#22979646)
The earlier glossy MBPs were pretty reflective, and I stuck with a matte MBP for years too because of it, but for a while now using the current "glossy" MBP screens I do not see reflections in them if the screen is on. It's to the point I forgot the screen is glossy. Thankfully it just works the way you want it to.
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Re:Install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on MacBookPro14,1 by ngrilly on Saturday April 25, 2020 @11:58AM (#22979026)
Looks like the new XPS 13 has a 16:10 ratio screen :)
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Re:Install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on MacBookPro14,1 by cevn on Saturday April 25, 2020 @12:09PM (#22979105)
Yes... and it's amazing :)
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Re:Install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on MacBookPro14,1 by mixmastamyk on Saturday April 25, 2020 @06:39PM (#22982242)
When the 15 comes out, I’m buying.
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