I used to live in Portsmouth and frequented their shop on a number of
occasions. Always been impressed with the price and quality of the
products, and it's refreshing to go to a computer retailer that actually
know what they're talking about! I bought a large number of components
from them and one of their desktops which I butchered - never had any
problems with it!
Alan Bell said the following on 07/01/08 16:02:
> well my one works fine. I wouldn't say they were better or worse than
> anywhere else, you get the same models badged as Clevo or Rock or
> Alienware etc.
> I did manage to break my keyboard by spilling a cup of tea on it
> (fitting the British tea drinking stereotype much to the amusement of
> my American friends) I contacted customer service, expecting to be
> ripped off, they have to order one from the factory in Asia, but it
> will only cost me £20 plus UK shipping so I was pretty pleased with that.
> In terms of working with Linux, the touchpad works as a Logitec mouse,
> it doesn't yet have a good driver (I have seen a kernel patch that
> might help, but I have not got round to trying it). No idea if the
> modem works, it probably doesn't.
>
> Alan.
>
> Stuart Matheson wrote:
>> How would you rate the quality of there products?
>>
>> On 07/01/2008, at 10:39 AM, Alan Bell wrote:
>>
>>> Novatech http://www.novatech.co.uk sell a decent range of laptops, I
>>> have the 17" Blazer which is a bit of a beast with a 1920x1200
>>> screen (Fantastic with Compiz). The great thing about them is that
>>> they list Windows as an optional extra and will sell you a laptop
>>> with a blank hdd and you don't have to pay a Microsoft tax.
>>>
>>> Alan.
>>>
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