I guess it's not what you're looking for, but I still believe it's totally worth it. I recently got an Asus UX501VW (15"), core i7 6700HQ, 16GB of DDR4 ram, 512gb m.2 SSD, hybrid intel (530) and nvidia gtx 960m, 4K monitor. It's running really great, no issues whatsoever with Fedora at least (running on 25) and some virtual machines I need for development. Performance is really nice, it's acceptably silent most of the time (unless it's compiling using all the cores etc, but even then it's not THAT bad). Also I'm really happy with the HiDPI situation in linux. I thought I was going to have many problems with it, but I really got none (at least with the apps I use). Something that also got me impressed, is the hybrid graphics situation. It's certainly not the best in linux, but it really works, I run whatever apps I need on the dGPU and use most of the time the eGPU which is giving me a very good performance for what it is. The battery life is not the best, I got around 5 something hours out of it, but I guess I can't have it all. Initially I was going for the Dell XPS 15 infinity 9550, but it was out of stock and I needed a laptop asap. Turns out, I got lucky. After seeing the problems the XPS had (needed lots of bios upgrades, but even then, meh - plus the keyboard space bar bug) and the lower price of the Asus ($1499 at the time), I consider it one of the best options. I actually wish there was a cheaper version with ONLY linux on it.

exactly. What I can see sun is doing is: I'm releasing the code under a license where you are allowed to work for me for free. Sun makes money out of it.