Re:Ask HN: MacBook Pro still preferred laptop for non-MS dev...
by aeeeee on Saturday April 21, 2012 @10:24AM
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Hm, not a lot of linux laptop love so far so I'll throw my hat in. Last December I bought a ASUS U31 (U31SD-A1 Intel Core i3 2310M 2.10GHz 13.3" 4GB Memory 640GB HDD NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M) and I absolutely love it.
The only thing that didn't work with stock ubuntu was the optimus video but with bumblebee it's fine, i only use it to switch off the nvidia anyway since 2d works fine on the intel chip. Also if you give windows a partition it's great for games too.
10 hours of battery life which is probably the most important feature. I never need to worry about bringing a charger when i travel on the weekends. I decided to replace the internal drive with an intel SSD which was spendy, but even after that the price was well below 1k.
The only thing that didn't work with stock ubuntu was the optimus video but with bumblebee it's fine, i only use it to switch off the nvidia anyway since 2d works fine on the intel chip. Also if you give windows a partition it's great for games too.
10 hours of battery life which is probably the most important feature. I never need to worry about bringing a charger when i travel on the weekends. I decided to replace the internal drive with an intel SSD which was spendy, but even after that the price was well below 1k.