I think it’s usually because “that’s what work is buying me”.

Can anyone show me a laptop that doesn’t lose to a macbook in any of these categories?

• performance
• price
• form factor
• fit and finish

I’ve run Linux on a Macbook because my employer wouldn’t give me anything else. Reason was: effort of IT team vs my effort of running Linux.

But pretty sure my effort was extensive compared to what their effort would have been :)

16:10 screen, wide-gamut display, correct ppi (X1C is too low, and the high-res Dells too high).

The last ThinkPad (of which I have many) to have a 16:10 screen was T410, which is now 8 years old.

Personally, there’s no other modern laptop I’d rather use, regardless of operating system. To me nothing is more important than a good and proper screen.

If anybody comes up with a laptop that has a 4:3 screen, I’ll reconsider.

I don’t think many people buy new Apple hardware with the intention of immediately wiping it and installing Linux.

My MBP, for example, is running OSX because I need it (or Windows) to use Capture One photo software. When I upgrade to a new machine I’m going to put Linux on the old one and use it for everything else. I did the same thing with my iMac years ago.

I personally still think the build quality of Apple laptops are better than the alternatives. The trackpad in my old MBP, for example, still feels better than the trackpads I’ve used on newer machines from other brands. The performance and specs are less important to me as long as it’s “fast enough” and the build is solid.

All that said, I’m not buying any more Apple products because their software quality has completely gone down the toilet the last few years.

In this case I didn’t really have a choice. I had tried asking for a PC before I started this job; but they tried to get me in really fast and provisioned a Mac without even asking me. My boss made up some bullshit about how you have to have them for developers laptops as the PCs the company bought didn’t have the specs (16GB of ram and such). I’m really glad I got Linux booting on it and not have to use it in VMWare (which does limit your max ram to 12GB and doesn’t give you access to the logical HT cores).

But yea if it was my personal laptop, I wouldn’t even bother buying a mac to being with. My recent HP had everything supported on it with the latest Ubuntu or on Gentoo with a stock kernel tree right out of the box.

I got given a macbook so I had no choice what laptop to use so I installed linux on it and it works well enough.

Hasn’t it been discontinued?

I believe all of them do except Dragonfly, like the article said. Also, TrueOS (which wasn’t covered in the article) only supports amd64. Do you have a link or can you cite something that says the major BSD operating systems are dropping 32 bit? Certainly the majority of development is occurring on 64 bit architectures but I think 32 bit is still supported for a while.