Re: [Dorset] Netbook recommendations? (Mark Elkins)

2011-12-06 Thread Adrian Howard
On 3 Dec 2011, at 08:04, Terry Coles wrote: On Saturday 03 Dec 2011 06:16:22 Adrian Howard wrote: For those who are curious I ordered an N1 last night (as pointed out by Terry Coles) - we'll see how it shapes up when it gets here. Gulp ;-) I'll feel really guilty if anything goes wrong

Re: [Dorset] Netbook recommendations? (Mark Elkins)

2011-12-03 Thread Terry Coles
On Saturday 03 Dec 2011 06:16:22 Adrian Howard wrote: For those who are curious I ordered an N1 last night (as pointed out by Terry Coles) - we'll see how it shapes up when it gets here. Gulp ;-) I'll feel really guilty if anything goes wrong :-) -- Terry Coles

Re: [Dorset] Netbook recommendations? (Mark Elkins)

2011-12-03 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 03/12/11 06:16, Adrian Howard wrote: For those who are curious I ordered an N1 last night (as pointed out by Terry Coles) - we'll see how it shapes up when it gets here. Well, as far as I can see there's nothing, either morally or legally, to stop you from firing it up with live CD of

Re: [Dorset] Netbook recommendations? (Mark Elkins)

2011-12-03 Thread Terry Coles
On Saturday 03 Dec 2011 08:12:31 Sean Gibbins wrote: Well, as far as I can see there's nothing, either morally or legally, to stop you from firing it up with live CD of some description to see what's what in terms of compatibility. As long as you are careful with It would have to be a live USB

Re: [Dorset] Netbook recommendations? (Mark Elkins)

2011-12-03 Thread C A Wills
I'll back everything Terry said about Novatech. I visited the showroom and tried a live disk on a desktop machine with no problem (except the guy didn't known about 'live CD's!); bought the machine with extra HD only to find no drive connector on main board. No problem as we went back

Re: [Dorset] Netbook recommendations? (Mark Elkins)

2011-12-02 Thread Walter Reed
I have used the Acer Aspire One Netbook for a couple of years and really enjoy it (£150 with Linpus from Dabs) I noted that eBuyer had some 10 netbooks for about £190  a week ago. I have used Ubuntu -11.04 Netbook release and now have 11.10 working fine. To me it seems such better value all  

Re: [Dorset] Netbook recommendations? (Mark Elkins)

2011-12-02 Thread Adrian Howard
On 2 Dec 2011, at 18:34, Walter Reed wrote: I have used the Acer Aspire One Netbook for a couple of years and really enjoy it (£150 with Linpus from Dabs) I noted that eBuyer had some 10 netbooks for about £190 a week ago. I have used Ubuntu -11.04 Netbook release and now have 11.10