I personally stick with the professional class laptops based on msi, asus, sager, etc. It's a price premium, but money well spent if you spend a large amount of time on the machine or need a lot of horsepower. Check out sites like <a href="http://powernotebooks.com">powernotebooks.com</a>, but read up on Optimus first. The next closest tier is probably something like the Lenovo lines. I need a real notebook, so can't speak much about the ultralights. <div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 6, 2013 1:59 PM, "Clay Dowling" <<a href="mailto:clay@lazarusid.com">clay@lazarusid.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> On 02/06/2013 01:56 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> My work laptop is an ultrabook, a Dell XPS-13, running Fedora 18 (x86_64). There's finally a kernel in testing that'll support the multitouch trackpad, otherwise the system runs fine. It's quite light, has a 256G SSD in it, integrated wireless and bluetooth. The CPU is a Core i7-2637M, dual-core. Display is 1366x768 (blah) but looks good. Ubuntu had support for it earlier, since they worked directly with Dell and the parts vendors to get drivers working. The XPS-13 is the Linux "Developer Edition" (<a href="http://content.dell.com/us/en/gen/d/campaigns/xps-linux-laptop" target="_blank">http://content.dell.com/us/en/gen/d/campaigns/xps-linux-laptop</a>). I like it. A lot of people just assume it's a MacBook Air, due to the way it looks. It's nice to be able to buy a laptop and not pay the "Microsoft tax", although I suspect that you're not paying any less than the people buying it with MS preinstalled. </blockquote> You're paying slightly more, or were when it first came out. I seriously considered it, because it was announced just slightly before I purchased the Latitude. And it wasn't my money, so I didn't care about the extra $50, which still put it well below my budget. One thing to consider is how much memory the motherboard can handle. I bought my laptop because it could take 16GB of RAM. That might seem obscenely huge, but at times I will need to run several rather greedy virtual machines on it. Clay _______________________________________________ linux-user mailing list <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu" target="_blank">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a> <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user" target="_blank">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a> </blockquote></div>