Re: [Dorset] Laptop advice please

2013-08-16 Thread Terry Coles
On Thursday 15 Aug 2013 16:14:09 Terry Coles wrote: On Thursday 15 Aug 2013 15:28:11 C A Wills wrote: May take a 'Live Disk' to Novatech and try it out on their laptops. Have a trip up the Tower while there? That is probably a pretty good plan. It might be worth phoning first to make

Re: [Dorset] Laptop advice please

2013-08-16 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday 16 Aug 2013 08:19:29 Terry Coles wrote: I almost forgot. This is quite a good resource: http://www.linux-laptop.net/ Hmmm. Having looked at the offerings on that site, there doesn't seem to be any thing posted more recently that a couple of years ago (on a five minute scan).

Re: [Dorset] Laptop advice please

2013-08-16 Thread Paul Stenning
On 16/08/2013 08:30, Terry Coles wrote: On Friday 16 Aug 2013 08:19:29 Terry Coles wrote: I almost forgot. This is quite a good resource: http://www.linux-laptop.net/ Hmmm. Having looked at the offerings on that site, there doesn't seem to be any thing posted more recently that a couple

Re: [Dorset] Laptop advice please

2013-08-16 Thread C A Wills
On 16/08/13 08:30, Terry Coles wrote: On Friday 16 Aug 2013 08:19:29 Terry Coles wrote: I almost forgot. This is quite a good resource: http://www.linux-laptop.net/ Hmmm. Having looked at the offerings on that site, there doesn't seem to be any thing posted more recently that a couple of

Re: [Dorset] Laptop advice please

2013-08-16 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday 16 Aug 2013 09:52:16 p.lane wrote: Before anyone buys a laptop with win 8 pre-installedAren't MS bios-locking vendors' hardware to toWin 8? A good point, but most of the big distros have a solution for that now. You may not like the solution; some involve a licence from

Re: [Dorset] Laptop advice please

2013-08-16 Thread Peter Merchant
On 12/08/13 08:54, 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