I might be the odd one out. I have a macbook pro retina running ubuntu 14 using parallels. Could not happier.
Assuming budget isn't an issue, I find many linux laptops (including the 13inch Dell) to have bad UX. Relatively short battery life, low res screen, and may i say, terrible trackpad.
Apple trackpads are significantly better than all competitors.
On top of that, a lot of nice to have apps don't run on linux. Things like screenhero. And apps that do have a linux build often don't work as well. (Think skype, hipchat)
Running VM on macbooks is the best of both worlds, you get linux for development and OSX for everything else.
Assuming budget isn't an issue, I find many linux laptops (including the 13inch Dell) to have bad UX. Relatively short battery life, low res screen, and may i say, terrible trackpad.
Apple trackpads are significantly better than all competitors.
On top of that, a lot of nice to have apps don't run on linux. Things like screenhero. And apps that do have a linux build often don't work as well. (Think skype, hipchat)
Running VM on macbooks is the best of both worlds, you get linux for development and OSX for everything else.