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Have you taken a look at the Razer Blade? It is basically equivalent to the Macbook pro's hardware in every way, except black, an i7, a touchscreen, and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060, and a bit less expensive. I just got one. I haven't put Linux on it yet, but I'm pretty blown away with the hardware.

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Wow, that looks like an MBPro clone. I've never heard of this company. I wonder if its machines work well with Linux?

Razer's basically a "gamer gear" company. Think stylized light-up keyboards, mice, headsets, and so forth. Problem is, their quality control is really all over the place and they are ridiculously expensive. This weird QC is part of the reason I never bothered with their laptops despite the well specced hardware.

There was an article last week stating they don't support Linux out of the box (or at least not Ubuntu), but I don't remember details regarding how much work is required to get it running.

The Arch wiki has a whole load of details on getting one up and running[1]. These instruction will usually translate between any other (up to date) distro with a bit of translation.

1. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/razer#2016_version_.28R...

Their older models from 2015 or so with 970m GPUs won't boot due consistently due to the hybrid (Optimus) graphics. The situation may have improved with the newer models, though, and their Stealth line only has Intel graphics which should work fine.

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