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by umanwizard 2323 days ago
If we don't count the keyboard issues, no laptop on the market is as nice to use as an MBP. If I had one with a physical escape key, I could probably make the statement without even that reservation.

But if you prefer Ubuntu to macOS for whatever reason, I've found the Dell XPS line to be good enough to be tolerable.

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> If I had one with a physical escape key

This is why I bought a Macbook Air, they still have a physical escape key and my vim muscle movements will not allow me to remap that key anywhere else.

BTW The 16inch Macbook Pros also have a physical escape key now, to the left of the touchbar.

I vastly prefer my SB2 to every MBP I have used. Great typing experience, less problems with throttling, more versatile.
It's possible to map the Caps Lock key to Escape as long as you don't need Caps Lock functionality.
That got remapped to control a long time ago for me. Will never be able to have it be anything else now.