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If you're okay with it, I'd actually suggest buying a MacBook Air and running Linux on it. My experience in the rest of the "ultrabook" world is that they just weigh far too much.

On the flip side, I'm also using a System76, which I've come to love. If you're interested, I wrote a review on my blog (http://www.lyricalsoftware.com/blog/system76-galago-review/)

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That's a pretty nice review. I hadn't heard of System76 before. Looks like they make some solid hardware.

I had similar touch pad issues with a HP where the sensitivity was either too much or not enough. When I ran Xubuntu, I saw the same issues and could never get it dialed in where I wanted it. I eventually jumped over to using CrunchBang (uses OpenBox for the DE, built on Debian) and my touchpad was pretty much dialed in from the get go. Makes me wonder if the sensitivity issues may be with the touchpad drivers that Ubuntu provides, granted it they are different than what's packaged with Debian.

thumbs up for review, I had no idea about these guys... MacBook is used by Linus as well, I think :-).

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