Re: [Hampshire] Novatech laptop deal

Russell Gadd wrote:
> I have been thinking of buying a cheap laptop for web surfing, email,
> the odd wordprocessing / spreadsheet (mainly for my wife) and this
> weekend Novatech are doing a £250 laptop, no OS, which sounds
> attractive. I wonder if anyone has any observations on anything I
> should look out for and if this seems a good deal.
>
> http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/nbranges.html
>
> The website description does not mention Linux but their email flyer
> says "works with Ubuntu". Maybe they are basing their statement on the
> experience of one of the customer reviewers who got Gutsy (Ubuntu
> 7.10) to work but not
> Hardy (Ubunutu 8.04). Not sure why the later Ubuntu should fail if
> 7.10 works.
>
> The other customer comment I note mentions "I would always say get a
> laptop with at least 1GB of R.A.M.like this if you are using on board
> graphics as they take a large chunk of the R.A.M. 512 of R.A.M. is
> hardly enough" - this does have 1GB but Ubuntu seems to be getting
> more ram hungry so I don't want to cut this too fine if it's going to
> be a problem with future versions. I wasn't aware that on board
> graphics used up main system ram - is this comment valid?
>
> Apart from the new small notebooks like the Asus eee, are there any
> other standard size Linux friendly laptops worth considering in this
> sort of price range (say up to £300) ?
>
> Any comments would be appreciated.
>
> Russell

Dell Inspiron 1525 with Ubuntu for £299 inc VAT & delivery.
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