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In my opinion, if you prefer Linux over OS X, you should take a look at Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook.

He's price conscious though, and that's a fairly expensive machine in its own right. It's still worth a look though, as the value of getting a machine that 'just works' is not to be discounted. It would drive me bonkers to get a computer with no apt-get, no focus follows mouse, one mouse button (three is best), and so on.

One mouse button? MBA has four.

> MBA has four.

Yeah? I haven't looked at one in person for ages, and don't see any at all in the Apple site pictures, so I'm guessing that you just tap the trackpad? But what if you want to right click to do something, or middle click to paste some text?

you can click on both the left or the right corner and have that trigger a left/right click.

alternatively (and by default), a two-finger tap is a "right click".

not sure about a middle click.

When you boot an MBA directly to a different OS - you lose multi-touch.

@davidw said a computer with no apt-get, so I'm assuming he's talking about the MBA while using OSX. If he booted into a different OS, he'd have apt-get.

I got mine my top spec XPS 13 for around £700 (refurb'd by Dell). Nearest MBA was over £1,100, and it had lesser specs.

Both the Dell and Apple refurb stores should be your first port of call.

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