[Liverpool] New Netbook/Laptop suggestions

[Dan Lynch]

It was direct from Dell website, came mail order but it was a limited offer
I think. Might have been an older model or something they were trying to get
rid of. It seemed too cheap to be true at the time. I think it was £165
including delivery. This was about 6 months ago if I remember rightly. I'd
have to check with her when she bought it though.

Dell Outlets are retail counters they have in places like PC World and some
other large shops I think. Never been to one as I tend to do my shopping
online. I'm far too lazy to go to an actual shop (scoffs) hehe

Dan


On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Vladimir <vladimir.jakubovskij at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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