A friend of mine has just told me yesterday he had seen in a shop the new ultrabook Asus Zenbook and he's thinkin about buying it: http://zenbook.asus.com/zenbook/?c=original
The 13" model he has seen should be 1.1kg, 7hours battery and 1000euro (even thought the normal price should be 1200), so it's cheaper and lighter than a MBA 13".
Has anybody experience with this ultrabook? especially with linux?
While I can't speak for the zenbook, I can speak for Asus every laptop I had so far is Asus, never had any problems with them. My current one is an old V1S (about 5years old) and still works pretty well, I had it with linux and windows, no problems at all with linux drivers. Call me a fanboy if you want, but I try to buy asus when possible and have no regrets so far.
About macbooks, for me its just overpriced hardware, I buy something because it works not because of its design, and comparing my laptop with a friends macbook I have seen no diference except the OS, nearly the same specs with his monitor being smaller. (maybe thats just me, I was never a fan of apple stuff)
My workmate bought one for programming. Ubuntu 11.10 required a kernel compile for Bluetooth to work, otherwise everything seemed to work out of the box. Even going to sleep when closing the lid - the hardest test you can give to a Linux laptop.
