Nathan,<div><br></div><div>You should get a System76 or the new Zareason Ultrabook :)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Nathan Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nathan@nathanewilliams.com" target="_blank">nathan@nathanewilliams.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thanks, Scott. I look forward to reading your write-up. I'm looking at picking up a new laptop later this year, and am currently torn between lenovo and a macbook. I'm sure your writeup will come in handy to many folks looking at running ubuntu on the newer hardware.<br>
<br>
- nathan<br>
<div class="im"><br>
Benjamin Kerensa <<a href="mailto:bkerensa@ubuntu.com">bkerensa@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
>N<br>
><br>
>On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Scott Garman <<a href="mailto:sgarman@zenlinux.com">sgarman@zenlinux.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> On 07/20/2012 09:10 AM, Scott Garman wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> Hi all,<br>
>>><br>
>>> I just got some budget funds from work that I need to spend this<br>
>>> quarter, and I'd like to get an ultrabook. Thing is, I'm not finding any<br>
>>> ultrabooks that meet my needs (13", high resolution screen, 8 GB RAM,<br>
>>> comfortable keyboard) and am beginning to contemplate buying a MacBook<br>
>>> Air and running Linux natively on it (i.e, wipe OS X completely from it).<br>
>>><br>
>>> I've found this <a href="http://help.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">help.ubuntu.com</a> page which suggests that 12.04 works<br>
>>> well on last year's MB Air:<br>
>>><br>
</div>>>> <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/**community/MacBookAir4-2" target="_blank">https://help.ubuntu.com/**community/MacBookAir4-2</a><<a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookAir4-2" target="_blank">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookAir4-2</a>><br>
<div class="im">>>><br>
>>> However, I'm not finding any information about this year's Intel Ivy<br>
>>> Bridge version of the laptop.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Can anyone point me to reliable information or personal experience with<br>
>>> this?<br>
>>><br>
>><br>
>> As a follow-up I've successfully installed and am running 12.04 natively<br>
>> on the MBA. I've written up the process in the Apple Users subforum of<br>
>> Ubuntu Forums:<br>
>><br>
</div>>> <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/**showthread.php?t=2039799" target="_blank">http://ubuntuforums.org/**showthread.php?t=2039799</a><<a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2039799" target="_blank">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2039799</a>><br>
<div class="im">>><br>
>> There's a fair bit to do post-install, but it pretty straightforward and<br>
>> is mostly the same as what you'd do on the 2011 MBA.<br>
>><br>
>> Scott<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>Nice work.<br>
><br>
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