Fast delivery, battery life and OS X

About the unit itself I do not have to say much at ease. There are ultrabooks with better display, there are cheaper Ultrabooks with Windows 8 (I have three years ago by Windows after many frustrating years in favor of OS X and Debian / Ubuntu adopted), but it's hard to find a comparable device with this battery life to find. Also: 999 for a unit with 13.3 inch display and 256 GB SSD in early June were a war trophy. My last statement requires an explanation: only every other ultrabooks come with Windows. The only device that currently has installed Ubuntu, the XPS 13 from Dell for 1499th To install Ubuntu itself was too tricky, after all the problems with UEFI (manufacturers fail to comply with the standard) has been reported in the net. So good are not my knowledge of Linux by far, and my money also does not sit so loose that I would risk a device for more than 300 to scrap, and even that did hurt. There are also driver incompatibilities, to which I did not like - and in some cases has been advised of a negative impact on battery life.
I use the device only for programming and documentation, and to my Unix improve / Linux knowledge. The iWork Suit is now so free and enough for my needs. Synchronization between (other Apple !!) devices suggests ME All other Office software, as well as the ability to access older versions of a document. The functional scope and the ability to access content through programming or content, for example, the word processing program in the spreadsheet to transfer: There is Office of the gold standard, and Apple iWork / AppleScript are far, far removed from the functional scope. But for my purposes, it is sufficient. However, OS X still holds surprises in store, I did not know after three years, such as the ability to do with QuickTime Screen Captures or apps like Grapher for visualizing mathematical functions. In addition, included with OS X a lot of interesting software that you must first install it on a Windows machine: With SSH you can log in remotely to other Unix-based devices, without having to install PuTTY. Compiler / interpreter for the popular programming languages ​​and Git as a version control software are already available. Xcode has incidentally integrated Git fine. Even a web server is installed. Only Apple has the use of the installed Web server from Lion difficult so annoys me.
All in all I am very satisfied with the device, even if I sometimes rougher night of missed opportunity to use Ubuntu (although very, very rarely happens). The price was more than OK, and the supply of Compustore very quickly.