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mhw
on June 10, 2010
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Ask HN: Why do no other laptop manufacturers get i...
The absence of a 1680x1050 screen option on the MacBook was one of the two reasons I didn't buy one when I last upgraded. Now I've just got to decide whether to sacrifice the freedom of Ubuntu for the polish of MacOS.
kgelner
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Just compile needed UNIX software for MacOS, you lose no freedom running OS X as a base OS.
It's a real UNIX, it even ships with Bash...
younata
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to be fair, you can customize the shell. I keep mine on the "professional" setting - black background, white text, tcsh shell.
Xorlev
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You can always run bootcamp and keep Ubuntu too. :)
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