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Linux Is a Lemon On the Retina MacBook Pro
An anonymous reader writes "It turns out that Linux doesn't work too well on the Apple Retina MacBook Pro. Among the problems are needing special boot parameters to simply boot the Linux kernel, graphics drivers not working, no hybrid graphics support, WiFi requiring special firmware, Thunderbolt troubles, GNOME/Unity/KDE not being optimized for retina displays, and other snafus, including 20% greater power consumption with Linux over OS X. According to Michael Larabel, it will likely not be until early next year when most of the problems are ironed out for a clean 'out of the box' Linux experience on the Retina MacBook Pro."
This proves it for once and for all. Apple is evil!!! What?
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Why in the world would you even try to do it? What is the goal of this endeavour?
Linux doesn't exactly have a reputation for working well on brand-new hardware. The new MacBooks only came out a couple months ago, give Linux some time!
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
Linux doesn't work completely on brand new hardware!!
This is totally shocking to me. This has only been a problem since the 90's.
Let's trash linux a little more by complaining how this Ubuntu DVD fails to load on this sundial. There you have it, linux can't even run on one of the most primitive time-keeping devices. It must suck.
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Why would you run Linux on a MacBook? Just but a cheap non-apple laptop or run Linux in a virtual machine if you need it.
It is so shocking to think that an operating system doesn't work well on hardware for which no drivers have yet been written?
And yes, folks have been working on this. It's all up on the G+.
But seriously, until somebody is paid to write the drivers prior to hardware release, why expect it to work?
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You spent $3000 on a laptop to run linux. You are a strange person.
Why waste so much time/effort with a BOS install? Run it in VMware Fusion full-screen like I do. Pick your battles, my friends.
But also all devices made by Samsung, LG, and HT....
But saying that doesn't draw any attention - mentioning Apple does. It's like when people talk about Foxconn. Nobody mentions they make stuff for HP, Dell, Lenovo, and others - they only mention the Apple connection.
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Yes, I heard that there was some sort of solution for my ThinkPad, but I gave up trying to get it to work. I run the nVidia graphics all the time, which cuts down on the battery life, but makes everything simpler.
I also find it frustrating that the firmware doesn't have graphics modes for the native screen resolution or standard 1080p screens, making it difficult to set up the correct console modes and boot screen (using grub2, at least).
Maybe now that Apple is using hybrid graphics, there will be more attention paid to it in the Linux community, which is a good thing. Of course, much of the problem is that we're dealing with binary driver blobs that don't always play well with each other.
Don't buy a Mac.
Don't get me wrong fan boys... Apple does make good gear, and it isn't Apple's fault it doesn't run Linux all that well on this particular device. However despite having a good operating system for a workstation I'm just not a big fan of OSX at home. I use Linux primarily at work and I am quite happy with it. Given the choice between Windows and OSX at work it will be OSX every time. However, I DO have a better choice in workstation OS that more closely mirrors our production servers on which to develop software.
I also don't care much for Apple as a company. I find Microsoft more trustworthy, and that really does say quite a bit.
It would be nice if Apple contributed to Linux. I know that is asking a lot of them as they throughly enjoy tieing two products together by virtue of license and copyright law. It is something they are unfortunately unlikely to change and as a result I try to avoid purchasing their hardware. Much like I will try to avoid any "secure boot" BIOS gear in the future.
That's too bad, 'cause, like most people, I was looking forward to buying overpriced hardware bundled with an expensive operating system and then just running free open source software on it instead.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
I have the new Retina MBP... and it's a fantastic machine. But WHY would you buy it just to install Linux on it anyway? It's a very expensive computer for that - you can get other laptops with similar specs (other than the display, yes) for a lot less. In almost all cases I'd suspect that people want to use both OSX and Linux - and in that case, I'd highly suggest running Linux in a virtual machine anyway (Parallels/VMWare).
Sure it'd be nice to have a pure dual boot for Linux, but until drivers are written and fine tuned for that specific platform it will do just fine.
I use Parallels for that, and for running WinXP (believe it or not) for one old app I need. The new MBP is so fast that I can cold-boot WinXP in 3 seconds! - making it a breeze to get to the one app I need when I need it.
MadCow.
I used to have a sig, but I set it free and it never came back.
Package contained a retina MacBook pro. Would not buy again.
The Ford engine doesn't fit well into my Chevy car. Come on people! Of course Apple isn't going to make their hardware work well with Linux. They have no need to.
K Man
I find that it's annoying that they got rid of the ethernet port but it's understandable. Have you seen how thin that thing is? Ethernet is too big for thin. In fact, with older mbp designes it barely fits.
The article also states that Linux runs quite well indeed in a VMware virtual machine.
If you install Fedora 17, you can even enjoy hardware- assisted 3-D graphics.
Pop the virtual machine into full screen mode and you might as well be running Linux on the bare metal, practically speaking there is no difference.
would you want to hurt that little Linux distro? Have you no shame?
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
Except for the fact that you're actually running all of OS X's overhead in addition to Linux, and that you don't have full control over /dev, and that certain key commands are intercepted by OS X so you can't actually pass them, and the fact that you have to fake a hard drive and send all your IO through convoluted loops that slow down the system even more...
Yeah, except for all that, it's just like running natively!
Apple currently has the high resolution screens. Too bad you can only get 1GB of video RAM on the MacBook Pros though. What is the point of having such a high resolution screen if you run out of VRAM for textures etc? I'm thinking about a Retina Mac to replace my existing Mac but at the lack of video ramm is putting me off.
Why does this matter? Because I'm developing a cross-platform OpenGL flight simulator and I would like to have plenty of Video Ram to go around (many flight sim gamers have very high end Windows rigs with 2-4GB of Video RAM, and this is my target [TBH, I don't care about those who want to game on less capable hardware - profit limiting I know, but I'm writing the sim for myself first and foremost and I have great hardware that is poorly utilized by many mainstream games]).
So, my point is while Apple has a lovely display resolution that will probably soon be matched by others. Other laptop manufacturers (eg. HP) produce machines with 2 GB of Video RAM, which is unlikely to be matched by Apple (none of their latops have more than 1 GB of RAM, Apple don't seem to be interested in trely powerful users of laptops - I guess that's what they have the Mac Pro for - but it doesn't help folks like me).
I think you have way bigger problems than removing the battery if you spill some liquid on a laptop. I've never been able to bring back a laptop after spilling coffee on it (twice now). And I don't know of anyone that has recover a laptop after liquid accident. My cousin just did that last month to his Thinkpad. Immediately removed the battery and used the rice trick, doesn't work.
It is flamebait because it makes blatantly false statement the Retina MBP is not in any sense "locked down." Apple does not block installation of 3rd party or open source software or operating systems on any of its desktop or laptop computers. So its merely a matter of an open source OS not yet having been tweaked to run perfectly on a new, and somewhat different, hardware design.
I love Linux but the Retina is probably the best laptop ever sold precisely because of the unusually high level of harmony between the top-notch hardware and the OS it was designed to run. That is the whole point of Macs - complete focus on the best possible user experience, and complete disregard of the opinions of zealots who call the lack of support for an entirely diffferent OS to be a "snafu".
Great!
See his blog post -
http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/15948.html
As for "why try to do it?" - well, probably because liking Apple hardware and high-res displays does not automatically create a liking for XNU/Darwin. Some people prefer Open Source.
Why in the world would you even try to do it? What is the goal of this endeavour?
When I first got into Mac, it was still a rare thing. And so that made me better than everyone else. I got to look down on PC users and call everyone who came after me poseurs. Then, as Mac's became more and more popular, I started noticing that EVERYONE was carrying them. I even saw people using them in Starbuck's, for Christ's sake (as I passed by the window on my way to an indie coffee shop that you've probably never heard of).
This forced me to do something to set myself once more off from the pack, so that I might reaffirm my moral and intellectual superiority. Obviously, I couldn't go to Windows. So naturally I turned to Linux, and an obscure distro than only a few of us know about (if you have to ask which one, don't bother).
It was perfect. Now when people saw I was using a Mac and asked me about it, I could tell them "Yeah, it's a Mac, but not the kind YOU'RE using" and blow off any subsequent questions with "I could tell you more, but you wouldn't get it." Once more, I was whole!
I would talk more about it, but I've got to get to a Semertian Poetry reading. Not that I expect you to know what Semertian Poetry is.
What political party do you join when you don't like Bible-thumpers *or* hippies?
What a captivatingly sharp image of a walled garden topped with razor wire! Look at it glisten in the sunlight coming through the walls of our crystal cathedral!
So a computer is "garbage" if it is not designed to deal with users who are so careless as to pour liquid into it? Face it: removable batter or not, if you spill liquid into your laptop keyboard, the likelihood that you will be able to pull the battery before anything is damaged is very close to zero. If you really are that clumsy, you probably should not buy any laptop computer--or at least buy one of those plastic keyboard protectors to go with it.
A great OS is even greater with great hardware. I run Linux on a MacBook Pro because I like the hardware. I wouldn't want any other laptop.
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Does it run Windows XP??
whatever comes after (HouseCat?) will probably be more IOS-likeâ"i.e., sucky on a laptop.
People have been saying that for years, even though Apple has repeatedly said that a desktop OS is different than a mobile device OS and held to that statement through a number of OS releases.
Meanwhile Microsoft is the only company that has gone ahead and said "no, both platforms should run the same OS".
You can always install Linux later IF Apple turns that way as well.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Fix it yourself by hacking the drivers. I had to do that with the sound hardware fitted to an old PC of mine. The card worked fine, apart from the MIDI interface which I could never get to work. It turned out that the main sound controller chip had a slightly different model number to the ones listed in the source of the kernel driver, and the mechanism for setting the MIDI hardware base address and interrupt was somewhat different. One evening spent disassembling the hardware's DOS driver later, and I had a patch that added support. It eventually ended up in the kernel source tree (2.2 perhaps?), but the whole driver was purged from the kernel a long time ago.
Oh, so that's why you have to use 3rd party "hacks" to enable native 2880x1800
Wrong, the OS is running at 2880x1800 all the time.
The hacks are all about turning on use of the higher resolution for apps that have not provided graphics for the higher res, so the text will look better. By default so OS X does not mess with the look of an app, it will keep the whole app running at the older resolution and simply scale up the display.
All of the system apps (like Mail and Safari) of course support native 2880x1800, and all the other apps really have to do is re-compile (it's optional to add higher resolution image assets, though of course a good idea).
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
To everyone asking "Why would you do this?" I can see two reasons:
1) It is nice to have a nice, lightweight, high-end laptop that can run OS X, Windows, and Linux. The Macbook Pro 17" was great for this.
2) People try to run Linux on crazy things, just for the challenge. It won't be too long before someone actually tries running Linux on an actual lemon. :-)
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Mac OS X is Unix, and then there's virtualization, why even bother getting Linux native to a Mac anymore?
Never say never. Ah!! I did it again!
I wonder: if you networked the raspberry pi to this lemon, would it still be so sour, at first byte?
(sorry..)
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"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
I got OS/2 running just fine.
Since when did Apple become a sponsor of /.
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Whether or not it is easy it is to swap hardware components has nothing to do with software compatibility. And if you really want a standard wired ethernet port (most people use laptops on wireless these days, you know, so it is hard to justify making a laptop thicker just to make room for it), you simply buy the computer with the adapter that provides one. And the problems reported were not in getting the Mac to boot from Linux (which is quite routine; people have been doing for years and Apple has not changed anything to prevent it), but rather minor glitches with the new hardware.
Likely to get the retina display on your operating system of choice. I considered it myself for the very same reason.
that initially helped me to transition to Mac OS. :-)
Not wanting to shell out for a Mac without being sure I could acclimatize to the environment that I was thinking about switching to, I dual-booted a hacked up T60p with Linux+Hackintosh partitions. Still a great machine, and there are some ways in which it definitely outclassed my MacBook Pro (albeit not in the area of OS X compatibility, alas...)
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Your eyes will howl at a return to lower resolution displays. It'll make you feel like you need serious glasses.
You notice the difference at the end of the day—you really do.
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I dumped a medium sized sprite into the keyboard of my dell xps 1530 laptop. I promptly tipped the whole thing upside down on the floor, to let the soda drain. Grabbed some towels and mopped things up. After leaving it overnight I tried to use it. Keyboard and trackpad buttons were pretty non-functional, sticky mainly. Took it apart. Immersed keyboard and trackpad in sink full of water. Agitated a bit. Rinsed several times. Sat in dish rack to dry. Put back in laptop. Everything works fine.
I'm fairly certain that the only thing in there that is sensitive to liquids is the hard drive and the fans. Otherwise you could dunk the whole laptop in a bucket and then just let it dry out.
Sounds like every Linux experience I've ever had.
TFA is lame. Doesn't mention what Linux distro (and there are a number) they tried. Nothing to see there..
Though it does make me curious.. Anyone have trouble / success with boot camp and windows? Same issues? Work better?
- Holy crap, I've got MOD points! Who thought that was a good idea.
Ethernet is too big for thin.
There's a toshiba ultrabook out there with a full-sized ethernet and VGA port. They seem to have used slightly custom ports and have cutaways in the casing, so the ports are actually the full height of the machine. It is a pretty thin laptop, and one doesn't have to fuss with carrying dongles around.
You can fit them in, but Apple would never do it because of the looks. Personally, I think Apple are far too prepared to sacrafice build quality and functionality for looks.
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I already have serious glasses. In order to look at an iPhone I have to take off the glasses and hold it about 4 inches from my face to read the text on it. That's why when I finally was forced to get a smart phone I got one with a larger display.
And really "Retina" is only a marketing term, it's not scientific, it has nothing to do with retinas or level of details that eyes can see.
Not entirely true. Google has said the same thing quite explicitly, they've just also said that that OS isn't here yet. That's quite the point behind their whole overt plan to eventually convergence ChromeOS and Android.
Because Åpple provides drivers for windows under boot camp, including for the retina display. I do recommend using virtualization instead though.
Its an expensive computer to run OSX on, too, because its just flat out an expensive computer.
You pay the steep price of the Retina MBP because you want a laptop with a super-high-resolution display, which is the Retina MBPs core outstanding feature.
You put Linux on it for any or all of the same reasons you'd want Linux on any computer.
Why? Particularly, why would the (hypothetical) fact that I want a super-high-resolution display on my Linux-based laptop mean that I also want to run OSX? And...
I've never had a newest model Dell server (very common) work with a distribution considered to be stable. Even the slightly older ones require very new kernels and binary drivers to support their broadcom nics, raid controllers, etc.
They installed Ubunturd. They didn't run any other distros. So it required some tweaks to boot the kernel? Ok. Either way, the article's own comment thread has mentions that Archlinux runs perfectly fine, albeit without some of the graphics stuff.
This is just FUD by the Windows and Mac crowd. Move along.
Why do you think the Linux community would pay more attention to a particular kind of hardware once Apple uses it?
Why would you screw up a perfectly good macbook pro by putting Unity crapware on it?
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"amd64"?? All Apples x86 machines have been Intel. Fail troll.
"The Retina MacBook Pro is a lemon because it won't run Linux"
There, I fixed your title for you...
Your thin skin doesn't make me a troll
Fixed that for you.
Other than proving it can be done, why would you drop that amount of money on a retina display macbook pro and then install linux on it? OS X is already *nix and has a much, much cleaner and better looking gui than anything available for linux.
To see if it can be done.
This is what getting Linux (or X, at the very least) working on any laptop used to be like, 15 years ago.
I bought a NEC Versa 2000C (486DX-75, 9.5" 640x480x16bpp, etc.) which worked well enough that I don't recall having to screw around too much with the settings - though of course I maxed the RAM and got a bigger HD and spent a lot of time messing around with different window managers to decide which one was good given the limited screen size.
A year or two later, I got my ex a Versa 4080H (P-120 with F00F bug if I recall, 10ish" 800x600) which in theory could run 800x600x16bpp, but after tons of messing with xconf (I think there may have been one other person who had one and was trying to run Linux on it) she pretty much wound up stuck at 8bpp forever. And although headphone audio worked, I don't know whether I ever got the built-in speakers to work.
So, somebody comes out with a laptop that makes use of hardware that no one's ever seen the likes of before and Linux isn't instantly somehow magically ready to run on it? This is my complete lack of surprise. (And I'm sure people are already slaving away on support for every feature of the Retina MBP.)
Village idiot in some extremely smart villages.
Macports is hosted out of http://www.macosforge.org./ But yeah they pay about 10 people to clean up open source distribution and get them working on a BSD style system.
Getting this far involved rather a lot of irritation at Apple for conspiring to do things in a range of non-standard ways, but it turns out that the real villains of the piece are Intel. The Thunderbolt controller in the Apples is an Intel part - the 82524EF, according to Apple. Given Intel's enthusiasm for Linux and their generally high levels of engagement with the Linux development community, it's disappointing[1] to discover that this controller has been shipping for over a year with (a) no Linux driver and (b) no documentation that would let anyone write such a driver. It's not even mentioned on Intel's website. So, thanks Intel. You're awful.
So yeah, dont let facts get in the way of your rant.
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Its ok to say that Linux or even Windows could not run well on a Apple Hardware, but you could found many more hardware that OSX does not run. :)
Intel Thunderbolt drivers are particularly poor - not supporting hot-plug in windows yet.
This is not really a problem with the hardware itself just Intel/Microsofts priorities are not aimed on thunderbold, considering it isn't on that much hardware at the moment.
How would you then expect that it will work immediatly on linux - where typically the developers don't get pre-release hardware or even specs.
A 15 inch screen simply doesn't need a resolution like that.
Shut up and change you username to "OldManEyes" or something. It's still a fraction of the dpi of newsprint. Increases in monitor resolution will make it possible to have crisper text (or just more text, but crisper is a better choice), which is easier to read.
I'm typing this in a 13" monitor at 1280 x 800, and looking at the jagged edges and aliasing around my icons and text and thinking that I would even like more than 2880x1800, but at least it's a good start. It's not worth it for me at the current price, but that's an issue with my limited resources, not with the idea of a higher dpi screen.
Stop thinking in terms of, "What's the minimum we can get away with and still be useful." That's an oppressive philosophy when applied in the way you have, implicitly impugning those who want more than the minimum as frivolous. Instead, try thinking about "What's the best we can do with the resources we have." instead.
Just going with the minimum bearable specs got us stuck for 100 years with an abysmal academy frame rate of 24fps that we're only just now starting to talk about getting out of.
Don't put stuff down just because you can't enjoy it.
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For the last week, the entire work week I have been studying centos - installation, configuration, ... I constantly create new VM's, clone them and so on. The only unusual thing is I resize the window, then back to full screen, - this sets the right display settings. That takes about 1 second after each start. Using vmware. If you are using MBP Retina in Bootcamp, then... WHY? Using VMware and it rocks!
Functionality maybe, but full height cutaways in the case sound like they'd be a build quality issue.
Personally, I'd much rather carry around a dongle for VGA rather than have it built permanently into my notebook. Ditto with the ethernet port (I can't remember the last time I used mine). I've also replaced the optical drive with an SSD because I can't remember the last time I used it. Things that I don't use frequently are quite well left to dongles.
Sounds more like the kind of routine driver problems that almost invariably crop up with a new hardware platform or a new interface.
Don't we already have this on Linux?
If not, why not?
We're still in the era of bitmapped fonts and icons?
And what's the point of all the required 3D and compositing business if you're not going to have scalable icons and text?
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is a win.
But on desktop side, one of the things that's often behind are support for common desktop file formats and standards, and amongst the most common management issues are hardware support bugs and instabilities. In hopes of getting features and bug fixes, you run updates to relevant packages. Those packages then depend on other packages—to get the bug fix or the feature/support you're happy to see has been implemented, you end up either:
(1) Spending time trying to figure out dependencies yourself, disconnect other dependencies with your own configuration and compiles, and only upgrade those packages that absolutely must be upgraded to get the updates you want.
(2) Updating everything to save the time otherwise spent doing (1), but then dealing with shifting filesystem standards, codebases, infrastructure implementations, etc. and having to essentially manage your own projects/code/work in relation to these in order to get your system back to the functional state it was in just before you ran the update. And there are often regressions.
It's a sort of damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't phenomenon on the Linux desktop; either way you're going to . These days I tell people:
- If you install Fedora, Ubuntu, etc. and immediately find every last thing that you need and a well-supported system, great. Linux may be for you.
- If you feel as though you're "almost there" and are just waiting for those one or two precious updates that will fulfill your needs, steer clear. You'll probably never get there, and you'll spend a lot of time tracking the evolution of the codebase(s) and doing system management as you wait.
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don't see the issues that you experienced.
But I do use vim on a regular basis for little things and have had no issues in iTerm, so it may depend (for the benefit of info for others) on the level at which you use Vim. If it's just to bung on text files here and there, it might be Good Enough[TM] for many. (It is for me—no issues.)
Sounds like for serious Vim users (I was always in the Emacs camp instead for big work) iTerm, too, may be lacking.
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but that doesn't mean that it's content-free. No, it doesn't actually have to do with scientifically established property of retinas, nor does it magically reach out and paint your retinas with pleasant fairy dust.
But the marketing department uses "retina" to indicate a very high resolution display. To those of us that like them, that is a feature, which makes the term useful, though any word designating the same feature would have had the same information function in the end.
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When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back. GET MAD! I don't want your damn lemons! What the hell am I suppose to do with these?! Demand to see Life's Manager! Make Life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons!!! Do you know who I am?! I'm the guy who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!!!
Darn it, Apple! Now I'll have to install Linux on my computer and pay only 1/3 as much!
WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO DESTROY MY LIFE, APPLE???
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That's because HP, Dell, Lenovo and others don't try to present themselves as all socially conscious and "think[ing] differently" for the hippy sects.
Evil is evil, and we only -really- get mad when we catch people being all "boosterist for non-evil" simply because nobody actually looked for the evil.
Innocent people shouldn't be forced to pay for inferior software development.
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This is a completely stupid and ill-informed article. The real problem lies with Apple's proprietary junk hardware and their intolerance for users running anything other than that dreaded Mac OS X. Hence the real lemon is Apple and it's overpriced hardware. Linux can easily adapt to any hardware platform - the same can't be said about OS X and it's bastardized implementation of BSD.
To all the people asking why, I have a better question... WHY NOT? I'll run whatever the fuck I want I on my hardware. You don't like it? Tough shit.
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What happened to choice is good, diversity is good? Look at all of these so-called nerds, shouting down the few who don't conform to running Windows on $300 laptops.
Congratulations, you've become what you despised.
So, full disclosure here (and you're going to love this): I have several Macs; my current rigs are 2011 iMac 27" and 2011 MBP 17". They both run Fedora. 90% of the time anyway. (They multiboot Fedora, Mint, Snow Leopard & Mountain Lion.) Oh, yeah: I went to Starbucks yesterday, ordered a quad Iced Latte and enjoyed the hell out of it. My television broke over a year ago, and I never got it fixed: I cancelled cable instead. So you could say that I don't watch television! I do not own a beret, nor do I wear one.
My point is, I don't have one. I'm just a regular guy, and I don't care what you think of my choices.
I won't say that there aren't any ultrabooks out there with those ports, I'm just saying that even the rMBP is too thin for it. Searching around, I didn't find any ethernet ports that were less than 0.71 inches (1.8 cm). I didn't do much searching but the one I found was 2cm which means the ethernet standard can't go thin enough. I'll agree with you that this move is super annoying but, I'm also saying that I understand why it is. I use ethernet all the time btw. There's too many wifi routers in my apartment for it to be reliable.
The Pope is Catholic! And bears have been spotted defecating in the woods!
This happens every time Apple releases new hardware. This is just Phoronix trolling for clicks again. Give it 6 months and the picture will be better. I had the exact same problems with my 2009 MBP, even used the exact same boot parms fr 6 months before things were sorted out.
Android is just a marketing term, it's not scientific it has nothing to do with humanoid robots.
Just asking :/