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14" Razer Blade 1060, grab a dbrand matte skin to cover the hideous Razer logo. No problems with Ubuntu 16.10 currently installed. Also have a 13" Dell XPS dev edition used for specific work. It's a nice system as well. The Razer def has more power if you want a full replacement.

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I'm considering moving from a macbook pro to the blade and adding the core to get a beefed up desktop experience with the ability to unplug and take work anywhere it needs to go. I'm assuming I would need to stay in windows land with linux via Hyper-V. Besides iMessage, all my apps run on linux (more-so) or windows (less-so). Any thoughts?

The only loss i've felt so far is my documents that were written / design in pages & keynote. Still have a older mac around to handle them. Otherwise i'm back to Windows 10 fT with the Hyper-V bash and docker. So far so good (going on a month now).

Any idea on battery life? Can't find anything printed about it.

Gaming, it's pretty short, if you set the intel graphics power settings right though you can get 6 hours give or take. I rarely use the laptop more than an hour without access to power anyway so the whole battery life issue mac or pc doesn't seem as big an issue for me.

How do you live with the bezel?

Adapt and Survive. Seriously the only cosmetic issue I have is the Razer logo. They really need to offer alternatives.

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