<div dir="ltr">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.<div>It has UEFI but no Windows and I had zero trouble installing Ubuntu GNOME 13.10.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div>It is quad core, 15.6" screen.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Brian</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 9 April 2014 22:01, Martyn Thompson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lou_martyn@hotmail.com" target="_blank">lou_martyn@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><div dir="ltr">Good evening,<br><br>Canyone recommend a place near Wakefield that sells good new laptop computers without a proprietary operating system pre-installed. <br><br>I don't want to pay for a licence for something that I will never use (such as MS Windows for example). <br>
<br>Thanks in advance.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br>Martyn<br> </font></span></div></div>
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