Re: [Dorset] Laptop advice please

2013-08-15 Thread Tim Allen
On 15/08/13 20:37, Peter Merchant wrote: On 15/08/13 19:42, Peter Washington wrote: - I have always been a fan of Toshiba laptops. Tesco have an offer on a Toshiba Satellite Pro C850-1HE with a 15.6" screen at £299, unfortunately with windows 8. It works with Ubuntu Linux according to the fo

Re: [Dorset] Laptop advice please

2013-08-15 Thread Peter Merchant
On 15/08/13 19:42, Peter Washington wrote: - I have always been a fan of Toshiba laptops. Tesco have an offer on a Toshiba Satellite Pro C850-1HE with a 15.6" screen at £299, unfortunately with windows 8. It works with Ubuntu Linux according to the forums. My 2-bits for what it's worth.

Re: [Dorset] Laptop advice please

2013-08-15 Thread Peter Washington
Hi Folks, > > Would the Redo disk work if M$ is not available? > > Redo (http://redobackup.org/) is a 100% Linux Live distro and has no > requirement for MS stuff. > In fact, when the disc failed it was the Windows partition that had the > bad sectors, so I was > able to recover lots of data from

Re: [Dorset] Laptop advice please

2013-08-15 Thread Terry Coles
On Thursday 15 Aug 2013 15:28:11 C A Wills wrote: > It would be nice to know if it runs Linux and if the wireless card works > without a lot of fiddling, remembering the problems I had with this laptop. Doh! I've misled you! My *old* machine was the Vostro; the one I had in the Hebs was a Lati

Re: [Dorset] Laptop advice please

2013-08-15 Thread C A Wills
On 15/08/13 12:20, Terry Coles wrote: On Thursday 15 Aug 2013 10:08:51 Paul Stenning wrote: Dell also have the Vostro range of laptops and desktops which are intended for smaller businesses. They are better made than the Inspirons and don't have the Latitude features that only larger corporate

Re: [Dorset] Laptop advice please

2013-08-15 Thread Terry Coles
On Thursday 15 Aug 2013 10:08:51 Paul Stenning wrote: > Dell also have the Vostro range of laptops and desktops which are > intended for smaller businesses. They are better made than the > Inspirons and don't have the Latitude features that only larger > corporates will want. My main client has

Re: [Dorset] Laptop advice please

2013-08-15 Thread Paul Stenning
On 14/08/2013 21:28, Ted Frater wrote: Im not up to date on the latest laptop deals, but for what the following might help. 1stly the Dell inspiron range has always been the consumer grade. Their business grade are the Latitude series. Those have a far superior build quality and Ive used a D

Re: [Dorset] Laptop advice please

2013-08-15 Thread Ted Frater
Clive Wills wrote: Hi All Last night my laptop cover/screen broke again for the second time at the hinge. (Dell Inspiron 1525) It cost over £80 to repair last time and the same has happened this time, it looks as if the hinge puts a strain on the cover. As the laptop is getting old I'm thinki