[HLUG] Linux Laptop

[Tim Spivey]

http://www.novatech.co.uk sell laptops with no OS installed.

Tim

On 11 December 2011 16:17, dicegeorge at hotmail dot com <
dicegeorge at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I'd get one with windows and put Ubuntu10.04 as dual boot,
> with automatic boot to Ubuntu,
> use Ubuntu 99% of the time
> but keep windows in case of hardware
> which is difficult to talk with linux
> like phones.
>
> [g]
>
>
>
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> From: "Steve Horsfield" <horsfield.steve at gmail.com>
> Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2011 3:09 PM
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> Cc: "hlug" <hlug at hlug.org.uk>
> Subject: [HLUG] Linux Laptop
>
>
>  I know this is a path well trod, but bear with me. I am trying to buy a
>> laptop - not for me I hasten to add. The only suitable offering I have
>> found with linux pre-installed is a 15.6" Lenovo from Linux Emporium in
>> Coventry for £ 535. Alternatively I could walk into PC World and pick up
>> an
>> equivalent Dell, for example, for £400 and overwrite the Microsoft OS. Is
>> there actually no way to realize the advantage of an open source operating
>> system?
>>
>> Steve Horsfield
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