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Re: Ask HN: Laptop similar to MacBook Pro in term of design

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Post by angryasian » Sat, Sep 24, 2011, 3:07 AM UTC

dpark wrote: post #10

angryasian wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

well outside of these design features that op mentioned the hardware specs you can purchase a comparable laptop with hardware specs for half the price.

What laptop can you buy for half the price of MacBook Pro that has the same feature set? Especially the giant multitouch pad?

well "giant" wasn't specified, but most new laptops have multi touch now. The difference is newer laptops by different vendors usually get heavily discounted or goes on sale much faster than mbp's. Just watch any deals site and you'll see. A nicely configured mbp will go for around 2k, you can easily get the same configuration for 1k, possibly much less with deals, coupons and discounts.

Re: Ask HN: Laptop similar to MacBook Pro in term of design

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Post by achompas » Sat, Sep 24, 2011, 5:18 PM UTC

angryasian wrote: post #7

pavel_lishin wrote: post #3

Can't answer your question, but why don't you want to install Linux directly onto the MBP?

well outside of these design features that op mentioned the hardware specs you can purchase a comparable laptop with hardware specs for half the price.

Are we talking about silicon specs? Or the actual laptop hardware?

This might be picking nits, but I can't think of any other company making a laptop with an aluminum unibody.

Re: Ask HN: Laptop similar to MacBook Pro in term of design

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Post by haesken » Sat, Sep 24, 2011, 5:46 PM UTC

I'm in a similar situation, I'm replacing a Macbook4,1. I don't want to deal with EFI/refit/GPT/etc anymore. As far as 13' laptops go the ASUS U36SD-A1 is the most attractive to me, but I think I'm going to end up getting a SAGER NP5165 because I can get more power for the same price. The HP Envy series also looks pretty good, if you can find them for a decent price.

Re: Ask HN: Laptop similar to MacBook Pro in term of design

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Post by lstrope » Sat, Sep 24, 2011, 6:40 PM UTC

qx24b wrote: post #9

I have a Samsung qx410 which is somewhat similarly built and has a great keyboard but absolutely sucks for linux in the touchpad department. I think you should look at thinkpads, even though they might not meet your specifications they usually work much better with linux than other brands and are usually well built.

I second the thinkpad.