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Nico Domino • Edited

Re: People having a hard-time finding MacBook Pro -esque hardware to run Linux on. I've got a suggestion - the Huawei Matebook X Pro

I've been running Arch on a Huawei Matebook X Pro for about a year or two now and man do I love this laptop.

I have the 2018 version - but its got many things going for it:

  • great keyboard
  • 3000x2000 touch screen (I know, an odd aspect ratio, but it takes almost 0 time to get used to)
  • slim bezels
  • a huge trackpad
  • fingerprint reader in the power button
  • no touchbar haha
  • Its got a sexy chassis and looks very similar to a macbook air
  • with an i7 + 16gb ram + nvidia mx250/intel uhd graphics version available, theres potentially still a ton of horsepower in that small shell
  • still has 1x full-size USB-A port!

It is not cheap, I paid ~1.800 EUR for mine back then, but I still recommend it to anyone I can nowadays.