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Re:Microsoft Surface Pro 2 by aroman on Sunday September 29, 2013 @02:32AM (#6464333)
Indeed, I own a 2012 MacBook Air and I'm convinced they're the best line of laptop computers on the market right now. I severely underestimated how much I would enjoy the tremendous portability.

I guess I don't need both an MBA and a Surface, considering I also have an iPhone.

Honestly now that I think about it, I think my biggest concern with the surface would be the fact that it runs windows. As a hacker who grew up on UNIX/Linux I find that really limiting, but moreover as someone who has heavily adopted the Apple ecosystem, I feel like I could never use the surface to its fullest potential.

I think what I want is a Surface which runs iOS X. (You read that correctly.)

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Re:Microsoft Surface Pro 2 by Aldo_MX on Sunday September 29, 2013 @03:21AM (#6464415)
You can turn off Secure Boot and install Linux to it if you really dislike Windows.
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Re:Microsoft Surface Pro 2 by dragontamer on Monday September 30, 2013 @02:49AM (#6468153)
Ubuntu installs cleanly on Surface Pros. The only part that doesn't work is the WiFi driver IIRC, but people have found workarounds for that.
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