An appeal to Canonical to develop Ubuntu Prime; a flagship ARM-based ultrabook

I'd like to see that. I think it would make Ubuntu a bit more mainstream, which I think that's their goal. If they're going to start working on it now, and release it next year, it should have at least a Tegra 4, or if they release it in 2013, it should have a quad core Cortex A15 and use Cortex A7 with big.Little, too.

And it should be a "Prime" meaning, it should have detachable tablet. I think that's the future for both tablets and netbooks/ultrabooks/notebooks.

"The way Google releases Nexus for Android; the Ubuntu hardware could be a template and a reference design for other companies"

Ubuntu make a proper hardware device and use it to challenge the Mac hegemony? I'm so buying that. Seriously. I've been trying for a decade to get off the Apple crack, and as soon as someone delivers an Ubuntu laptop with as much style and functional design goodness as my Macbook Pro, I'm there.

Off topic, but that site really is amazingly ugly. In Chrome on Windows the lower section is unreadable.