I know that google is a good friend, however it is also nice to talk about such things.....
I have a friend of a friend who wants to buy a Ubuntu laptop. She has already checked out that the 10 inch mini units have displays which are to small for her elderly eyesight, so the question was passed to me about a conventional laptop, preinstalled with Ubuntu. I see that Dell only now offer a netbook (10V) with Ubuntu, or at least I could not find anything else and their online sales chatline confirmed this. I asked Novatec sales if they knew of any of their laptops which would run ok fully with ubuntu, but they said they did not know and had no information, but did know they did not have any linux support including any drivers. I also asked Novatech sales if I would be allowed to try ubuntu on one of their display units - I am close to the Reading showroom - but they said I would not be allowed. Sad, because I would have liked to support both Dell and Novatech, but I do not want any guessing, I need good information. I am aware of www.linuxemporium.co.uk and this is an obvious possibility. Any comments please? -- alan cocks Ubuntu user #10391 Linux user #360648 -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
