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There's a guy who makes a living doing this: http://www.usbtypewriter.com/

Also, there's a guy who made a stupid bet regarding this: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/typewriter-odyssey#/story

I'm interning at Yelp this summer on the same team as Yuxin Zhu, one of the creators. He's super passionate about making students' lives better!

Wow, really? I've never had any hanging/reboot/battery issues with the Dev Edition.

I did a stock reinstall of Ubuntu 12.04 shortly after getting the laptop and everything worked except for one brightness tweak which took me <5 minutes.

Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition (comes with Ubuntu pre-installed). The best part, though, is that Dell wrote a bunch of drivers for the hardware that got integrated into the main Linux kernel--I've installed over 10 distros on it (not all at once!) and on every one of them brightness, multitouch gestures, etc, worked out of the box.

Zed Shaw you are the man

Agreed, I have it and it's a great laptop. The battery is pretty solid--I usually get ~5 hours out of a full charge