[Watford] New netbook

[Alain Williams]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 08:00:11AM +0000, David Edmondson wrote:
> * addw at phcomp.co.uk [2012-02-22 Wed 20:33]
> > I want to get myself a new netbook. Nothing fancy, just work when I install the
> > latest Ubuntu. I want 1GB RAM, screen at least 1024 wide, 10G disk (or
> > preferably SSD - no moving parts), don't care how fast the processor is (but the
> > slower the better to increase battery life), VGA output (for data projectors),
> > ethernet & Wifi.
> >
> > I will use it when I am out & about also for presentations (hence VGA out).
> >
> > Any suggestions ?
> 
> How about an ARM based machine?
> 
> http://www.genesi-europe.com/store/eu/
> 
> No VGA out, though a USB VGA device may well work.

That might have been interesting ... but I need it for Monday.

I 'phoned RL Supplies to check that they had the machine:

    Oh, have we still got any netbooks on the web site, we don't have any in
    stock, they change so often, I must update the web site.

They are still there.

Then he suggested that I go to Tesco as their prices are good and told me to
avoid Currys since if it breaks they mess around - Tesco are better.

So: I went to Asda, saw what I wanted at a good price - they only had one model.
Thought that I would check Tesco, they had 3 models - the one at Asda was #20
cheaper for the same model. The other 2 models didn't have so good battery life - rated anyway.

Returned to Asda - picked up one of the 20-40 ''take this to the service desk
slips'', the girl wandered off for 5 minutes and on return said that they had
none in stock. I said that they ought to take the slips off display then -- but
she insisted that they had to stay.

So I returned to Tesco.

Thanks for the comments.

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