On Wednesday 30 June 2010 10:00:03 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: > Hi all, > > My mother-in-law has been using a Shuttle style PC running Ubuntu for > a number of years and that machine has just died. > > Anybody have any recommendations for a small form-factor machine > (shuttle sized or even mac-mini style) that can be bought without > paying the windows tax? Sydney local preferred but open to other > options.
I got mine an eee 1001HA which was cheap, comes with a mic and camera and u10.04 netbook remix made it quite usable for her. (After 17374 times of being told how to grab a window by the title bar ...) Also the LED display is quite nice. James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html