I've always liked the stuff that System76 makes & figured I'd buy one of their machines officially. However, the big announcement, for me, out of the Ubuntu Developer's Summit was Dell's Project Sputnik- basically, a Dell XPS running Ubuntu 12.04. <div>
<a href="http://bartongeorge.net/2012/05/07/introducing-project-sputnik-developer-laptop/">http://bartongeorge.net/2012/05/07/introducing-project-sputnik-developer-laptop/</a>
</div><div><br></div><div>The great thing, is that if you already own an XPS, you can check out their iso image & give it a whirl: <a href="http://hwe.ubuntu.com/uds-q/dellxps/">http://hwe.ubuntu.com/uds-q/dellxps/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>A laptop with a developer-focus in mind running a Linux distro is exactly what I've been wanting. Everywhere I go & us dev types congregate, all I ever see are Macs. The fact that it's built on a gamer-class laptop is icing on the cake. :)</div>
<div><br></div><div>cheers,</div><div>--miguel</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>