MacBook Pro Compatibility, Multitouch, and General Experience

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Published on 2011-02-01T05:08:41Z Indexed on 2011/02/01 7:32 UTC
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I am a Ex-Ubuntu user and decided to go to OSX mainly because I was going to be working in an OSX shop and felt like I needed a more mainstream OS to run Production level software packages like Adobe.

6 months in, and I am more than happy with my MacBook Pro purchase. Just the physical build quality alone warrants the premium price tag, but I am now looking at my day to day demands and realize that I really do not use any software that prevents me from turning back to Ubuntu.

My question now is, in terms of 2010 MacBook Pro, How is the hardware compatibility?

Does the trackpad multitouch gesture work with 10.10? is it oversensitive?

And for anyone that has a relatively new macbook pro that is running Ubuntu, How is the general experience coming from an OSX environment?

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