On 19/08/13 16:59, Terry Coles wrote:
On Thursday 15 Aug 2013 16:14:09 Terry Coles wrote:
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!
On Thursday 15 Aug 2013 16:14:09 Terry Coles wrote:
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*
I inherited a Dell Vostro from its previous owner when I started with my
current employer a year ago .. not sure of the model number, I5 processor,
6GB, solid build. It fell out of my bag onto a flagstone floor on the way
to work one morning, and a corner of the plastic casing broke off but the
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
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).
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 a
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
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
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 the D:
On 15/08/13 19:42, Peter Washington wrote:
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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.
On 15/08/13 20:37, Peter Merchant wrote:
On 15/08/13 19:42, Peter Washington wrote:
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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
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 thinking of a new one but
Just a thought - but might a Chromebook suffice? The Acer C7 is £199, has
the basic hardware spec you indicate, and can be configured to boot into
Linux (proper) as well...
On 12 August 2013 08:54, Clive Wills ecwi...@talktalk.net wrote:
Hi All
Last night my laptop cover/screen broke again
On 12 August 2013 at 08:54 Clive Wills ecwi...@talktalk.net wrote:
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
Hi Folks,
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 thinking of a new one
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