[Liverpool] New Netbook/Laptop suggestions

[Vladimir]

Where did your mum get it for £180? at the official store the price tag is
£229 (and mini 10 is £199)both running ubuntu 8LTS

2009/9/9 Dan Lynch <biglynchy at gmail.com>

> The netbook market is a bit messed up right now and it seems most of us
> agree on that. Now get your tin foil hats ready and call me paranoid but I
> wonder how much of an influence Microsoft have had on this? They had nothing
> to run on the likes of the eee when it first arrived and so they cut deals
> with Dell, ASUS and others that new machines should be at least 10" display,
> normal HDD and a more beefy CPU. All this so they could get Windows back on
> them using financial muscle. I know it's not as clear cut as that and I'm
> not trying to claim they're 100% responsible for this situation, but I think
> they've contributed. The netbook was very bad for MS and they had to get rid
> of it by hook or by crook. The 10" screen deal with Dell and others was well
> documented. Hardware OEMs seem to have their own reasons for wanting to kill
> it as well, as I said I wouldn't try to totally blame MS. It's a weird
> situation.
>
> Anyway, back to the point of this message, which wasn't to spread
> conspiracy theories actually. My mum got a Dell Mini 9 with Ubuntu for about
> £175 brand new not so long ago, it's a very nice little machine. I suspect
> that was dell offloading the last of their Mini 9's but you may still be
> able to get one. They're worth a look. I've also had a go on a friends Acer
> Aspire One and was very impressed with that, though Linpus Lite is a pile
> of... erm... something rhyming with Lite, let's just say that :D Get another
> distro on it though and it would be a killer.
>
> Maybe you're looking for more a notebook style machine that though I'm not
> sure. You mentioned 12" screen. I love my M1330 and it came with Ubuntu,
> it's a 13.3" screen though and while not expensive for a decent laptop
> (£7-800), it couldn't be described as cheap either.
>
> Dan
>
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