Roy Britten wrote:
So, I've got some money burning a hole in my pocket and I'm quite keen
on getting a netbook / small formfactor notebook.
The big box retailers seem to have Acer Aspire Ones and some HP thing
on the shelves. I've heard less than complimentary things said about
HP's laptops and I'd prefer to stay away from them. Would you care to
recommend anywhere I should consider buying from and any hardware I
should consider? My preferences are for something that works with
Linux out of the box, reasonable RAM and excellent battery life.
I'll most likely be removing any OS provided and replacing with some
flavour of Linux. An OS-free netbook seems to be hard to find but
would be preferred.
Commercial touting happily accepted, but might be better offlist.
Cheers,
Roy.
I've just taken delivery of a Dell 11z and have to report that I am very
happy with, small enough, light, good looking ,sharp sceen, full size
keypad, good battery life (>3Hrs 3cell, > 6Hrs 6cell) and I cant find
any of the hardware that isn't working out of the box with Kubuntu 9.10.
Goes faster than I a would expect given the specs and all up will be the
best laptop I have owned at any size and any price! With Koala installed
it makes a very slick little system !
Chris
