Re: [ubuntu-uk] Laptop Choices

2008-05-13 Thread Sean Miller
HP laptop - 15" widescreen, 2GB RAM, 120GB hard drive... £379.99 at Tesco. For your £1,000 you can buy a couple of them and still have a couple of hundred quid spare to spend on other things. Every little helps, as Tesco like to say. Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/m

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Laptop Choices

2008-05-13 Thread Andrew Oakley
Jai Harrison wrote: > I would like to be able to run Ubuntu with desktop effects and plenty > of spare resources for things such as gaming through Wine (nothing too > heavy - Age of Mythology, would like to give Age of Empires 3 a try), > running virtual machines on, etc. The laptop should be decen

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Laptop Choices

2008-05-13 Thread Jai Harrison
Just to clarify, the reason I'm so paranoid about purchase of a new laptop is the hell that this Acer laptop has given me in terms of constant problems and having to continually send it off for repair. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Laptop Choices

2008-05-13 Thread Jai Harrison
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:14 PM, James Hooker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Jai - Hey Jim > Had a look about: > > I know the Dell XPS laptops have been pretty good with Ubuntu... the > 13.3" screens start at £599 and the 15.4 inch screens start at £539 I'm not sure about this particular ra

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Laptop Choices

2008-05-13 Thread James Hooker
Hi Jai - Had a look about: I know the Dell XPS laptops have been pretty good with Ubuntu... the 13.3" screens start at £599 and the 15.4 inch screens start at £539 I've heard good things about Ubuntu running on Fujitsu Lifebook series.. the build quality is very good and they are pretty nice

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Laptop Choices

2008-05-13 Thread Josh Blacker
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 21:02 +0100, Jai Harrison wrote, among other things: > The laptop should be decent with > said things for the next 3 years (my bachelor's degree course length). > > Jai > I would recommend Dell, as many others have done. I bought an Inspiron 6000 at the beginning of my las

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Laptop Choices

2008-05-13 Thread Rob Beard
Jai Harrison wrote: > Hey All, > > The time is approaching, the time when I buy a new laptop. > > > I would like to set the budget at one thousand pounds (£1,000) as I'm > a student and so that's already pushing it for the price. I need all > of the money I can get to put towards university. >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Laptop Choices

2008-05-13 Thread Jai Harrison
Hey, On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 8:51 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > What are you going to be using it for? If you only have basic needs > then a £500 one would be fine. Are you looking for something small and > portable or a full desktop replacement. The xps m1330 is good, and I > think uses

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Laptop Choices

2008-05-13 Thread matt
Quoting Jai Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hey All, > > The time is approaching, the time when I buy a new laptop. > > My current one is an Acer TravelMate 4150. It's the most awful laptop > ever. I have currently sent it in for repair twice and now something > else has gone wrong with it so it l

[ubuntu-uk] Laptop Choices

2008-05-13 Thread Jai Harrison
Hey All, The time is approaching, the time when I buy a new laptop. My current one is an Acer TravelMate 4150. It's the most awful laptop ever. I have currently sent it in for repair twice and now something else has gone wrong with it so it looks like I'm going to have to send it in again. Acer's