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I've thought about this. Does anyone have experience running Windows as the primary OS on a Mac?

Yes, I mostly run Win8.1 on a rMBP via bootcamp, and have no problems with it (took me a few hours to setup, you'll need a 16GB USB stick and a non-upgrade Windows 8 key to do it). The trackpad support is not as good as in OS X, but still infinitely better than any trackpad I've used on a pure Windows machine.

It is definitely better than my previous Carbon X1. High res is beautiful (though there are many Windows options for that these days).

> The trackpad support is not as good as in OS X, but still infinitely better than any trackpad I've used on a pure Windows machine.

Does it support precise scrolling (per-pixel instead of per-line?) The trackpads in Windows 8 ultrabooks support this, but I've heard that the Windows drivers for the MBP trackpad don't.

No, but the accompanying jitter would not be very usable for what I do (coding mostly). The ultrabook trackpads seem to have more features, just none of them done very well :(

Edit:

There are things you can do to tune scrolling that are quite nice; see http://waded.org/2013/01/15/perfecting-trackpad-scrolling-in...

Yeah, you're right about that. My trackpad has a bunch of features that are so useless, I just leave them switched off. The scrolling is nice though. I've always wondered if I could switch to an MBP for Windows stuff, but if I did, I'd need to keep precise/inertial scrolling. Maybe those Trackpad++ drivers would be best for me.

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