[Bradford] Laptops without MS Windows pre-installed.

[Brian A]

I can't remember where they are but David C recommended Novatech to me and
I bought a laptop from them recently. I am using it now.
It has UEFI but no Windows and  I had zero trouble installing Ubuntu GNOME
13.10.

I chose one of the pre-spec devices and then modified it slightly. I
dropped the 16GB memory to 8GB and upped the CPU to an i7.
It is quad core, 15.6" screen.

The only negative I have found is that the trackpad switches are part of
the trackpad. That means that if you are cut/paste dragging then you can
run out of trackpad. As I usually use a trackball it matters not a lot. I
did find that I sometimes caught the trackpad when I was typing, resulting
in the usual problems. I had set it to switch off the trackpad during
typing but that was ineffective. Instead, I wrote a short script so that if
the trackball was plugged in at boot the trackpad would be disabled.

Brian




On 9 April 2014 22:01, Martyn Thompson <lou_martyn at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Good evening,
>
> Canyone recommend a place near Wakefield that sells good new laptop
> computers without a proprietary operating system pre-installed.
>
> I don't want to pay for a licence for something that I will never use
> (such as MS Windows for example).
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Martyn
>
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