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The Lenovo Yoga Pro 2 is out. It starts at ~1100 and has a 13" 3200x1800 screen. Early reviews say they improved every aspect of the original Yoga. It weighs a hair over 3 lbs, has a Haswell processor, up to 8GB ram, and gets about 6 hours of battery life. The battery life isn't stellar for a Haswell ultrabook, but the absolutely amazing screen uses more power than a lower-res one would.

As another option, the Thinkpad T440s just launched. It has an option for a 1080p IPS, weighs about 3.5 lbs, and has a hot-swappable battery.

Lenovo also has really good Linux support.

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It looks like the new thinkpads costs as much as new mac books , why would i consider thinkpads over MBA? Thanks .

An identically priced MBA has a mediocre, low-res TN panel in comparison with the Yoga. A Haswell rMBP is going to have a marginally better GPU and a ~$300 higher price.

If you like OSX better than Linux or Windows, it makes more sense to get a Macbook. If not, Lenovo has a better screen at a lower price than the rMBP, and at the same price as the MBA.

I recently switched to MBA from Thinkpad because of only one factor ie. the operating system, Other factors are comparable there are some pro's and con's in each device.

Upgradability, durability, ports, running Windows (Boot Camp isn't all that great with battery and fans), running Linux on something well-supported.

I don't understand why to use linux(Lack Adobe creative suite and many other softawares though could be run via Wine but with a performance glitch) and Windows(For developers ?? :P) when there is OSX is already doing a very good job.

Not every web developer does web design. If you only code, there's no advantage to using OSX.

Judging from your other comment, you have already picked OSX. If it works better for you thats all that matters, but its silly to pretend that you can't comprehend why other OSs exist. The answer is simple, not everyone likes the same thing.

Agreed but to code as well there are much better alternatives ex. Text mate, although you can use Sublime. And one more thing I'm not judging Linux or windows but I think OS X can be better if all you want is best of both the worlds(my case).

OSX sounds like a good match for you. Honestly, if I had the cash, I would probably get a Haswell rMBP, so I could potentially run all 3 OSs. I'm a security analyst, so its nice to be able to run everything without any compromises.

Unfortunately, I didn't have enough for a rMBP, so I ended up spending a third of the cost of a 13" rMBP on a Thinkpad so I could run a dedicated Linux machine.

That being said, if someone just happens to prefer Linux, you really can't beat a Thinkpad from the T, X or W series'.

Totally agree with you for linux i too preferred Thinkpad.

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