[Deaf-lug] Laptops

[JGJones]

Shops won't let you run a live distro? Exactly what is stopping you from 
  going up to the laptops on demo and popping open the CD drive and 
pressing the power button and booting up? :)

I do this at PC World, John Lewis, Curry, smaller stores etc all the 
time and walk off leaving them in the live distro where it works well 
(it get a lot more interest than Windows does as it's something new, 
different etc and people can actually play around a bit unlike watching 
the useless demo video.

Anyway laptop for £300:

http://dell.co.uk/ubuntu

Get it without Windows too.

If you have the money, get the XPS M1330 - they are seriously nice 
laptops. My brother have the Inspiron laptop (£350 for him) and he's 
perfectly happy with it too and like Ubuntu a lot too.

Fintan Gaughan wrote:
> Now that I got my bonus from work I want to treat myself to a laptop
> so I can take it to local LUG.
> 
> problem is which to go for?
> 
> Dell laptop are likley to be linux compatable and I have been fixing
> peoples high end laptops and before
> giving it back i run a live ubuntu distro and everything works.
> 
> Shops wont let me run a live distro before I buy and beside being
> rural I always buy online.
> 
> any recomendations?
> 
> buget under £300 cheaper the better really. (if i get it any cheaper
> id like to get a nintendo wii )
> 
> I dont do games (yeah i know nintendo wii but its for kids) , but like
> to watch mythtv or dvds from laptop
> 
> 
> Fintan
>