Hi Pat, I bought my wife an Asus EeePC awhile ago. She is quite happy with it and has not asked for any 'upgrades'. Several other CLUG members have EeePCs with various degrees of hardware/software upgrades.
Again, aimed at the EeePC, you can check here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EeePC for some tips. It looks like just about everybody has, or is about to, release a netbook. Acer, Toshiba, Commodore, Samsung, LG. When I go shopping for a new laptop I just take a bootable CD/DVD with me. If the machine can boot it's a contender - if it thrashes around because it's full of proprietary components I move on. Ubuntu does make hard-drive partitioning really really easy. I haven't heard that Ubuntu is hard to install on laptops. I currently run 'Hardy' on my Acer 5580 (18mos old). When I purchased the laptop I purchased a 2nd HDD, removed the Vista drive and inserted the new one. Put in the Ubuntu CD and installed. Everything just worked. I've run 'Fiesty', 'Gutsy' & 'Hardy' on ThinkPads and my Acer without any drama at all. If you want to do it yourself, I'd be happy to give you a CD/DVD with Ubuntu on it. Question: The MSI Wind,and most other NetBooks, don't have a CD/DVD drive, what do you want to use for installation media - USB stick? Cheers, J.J. On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 07:48 -0600, Pat Roche wrote: > Hi, > > I am a non-techie who wants a netbook running Ubuntu Linux. (I know > Ubuntu is pre-installed on the Dell Mini 9, but I've ruled it out > because of the keyboard configuration. ) > > I'm thinking of buying on an MSI Wind netbook. This is a tiny > 10-inch-wide notebook with a 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor and is sold > with Windows XP Home Edition. It has an 80GB internal hard drive, but > no internal CD/DVD drive. > > I heard Ubuntu makes hard-drive partitioning and Linux installation as > easy as installing a Windows application! Is this true?? > > I also heard Ubuntu is hard to install on laptops. > > Are there any netbooks with Ubuntu pre-installed (besides the Dell > Mini 9)? > > If I can do it myself, where in Calgary can I get the Ubuntu CDs or > DVD? (I don't have a working CD burner on my Windows desktop.) > > Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
