On 13/10/12 18:00, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
Hi! I'm looking at the inevitable replacement of my 4 year old Toshiba Satellite laptop in the near future and am looking at purchasing a laptop pre-installed. I'm having grave difficulties finding any vendors in the UK other than Linux Emporium - are there any others?
Laptops are much more a problem than desktops, because they often have a higher level of customisation I believe, but you do say 'laptop'
In recent years I have helped three friends buy laptops from Linux Emporium, and in each case the service was excellent. They like you, wanted Ubuntu preinstalled for the reasons you mention. LE are not the cheapest but you are buying more than just a preinstall. They have checked ot the compatibility of course, and there is a retail guarantee. You also will be supporting the Ubuntu wider ecosystem. Not only that, but over the guarantee period at least one of my (non tech) friends needed seriously heavy remote (online) support which sounded to me like it was a warm reinstall. LE were also utterly helpful in handing over to me as 'admin' later on. And when hard drive happened to fail (!) in later years, they managed to capture the HD image and replace and re image as with current user files, as if nothing had happened. This impressed me because with at least one current Ubuntu live CD which was tried the HD was not readable. Maybe luck, but I have no hesitation of pointing you to LE.
Zareason USA and new zealand are interested in opening a UK branch but have no timescale. They do not ship to UK yet, which grieves me because I would LOVE to use them.
-- alan cocks -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
