Colin Law wrote:
> On 13 March 2010 01:57, Liam Proven wrote:
>
>> - Avoid anything with a Celeron or "Pentium Dual-Core". They're
>> cut-down chips & crippled. Get a Core 2 Duo as a minimum. (Or an AMD.)
>>
>
> I think anything current (or even a couple of years old) will provide
> perfe
Liam Proven wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Rob Beard wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Well the time has come where my mum and step-dad have decided to get on
>> t'internet so they're looking for a laptop. They were planning on
>> getting me to go with them to PC World to help choose one,
On 13 March 2010 01:57, Liam Proven wrote:
>
> - Avoid anything with a Celeron or "Pentium Dual-Core". They're
> cut-down chips & crippled. Get a Core 2 Duo as a minimum. (Or an AMD.)
I think anything current (or even a couple of years old) will provide
perfectly adequate performance for basic i
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Rob Beard wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Well the time has come where my mum and step-dad have decided to get on
> t'internet so they're looking for a laptop. They were planning on
> getting me to go with them to PC World to help choose one, but I've
> convinced them to h
Alan Lord (News) wrote:
> On 12/03/10 21:00, Rob Beard wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Well the time has come where my mum and step-dad have decided to get on
>> t'internet so they're looking for a laptop. They were planning on
>> getting me to go with them to PC World to help choose one, but I've
Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
> On 12 March 2010 21:00, Rob Beard wrote:
>
>> Just wondered if anyone else had this particular model running Ubuntu or
>> had any other suggestions?
>>
>>
>
> Could I suggest looking on some deals forums? I don't really want to
> link to it in a list, but one I
On 12/03/10 21:00, Rob Beard wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Well the time has come where my mum and step-dad have decided to get on
> t'internet so they're looking for a laptop. They were planning on
> getting me to go with them to PC World to help choose one, but I've
> convinced them to hang fire for a
On 12 March 2010 21:00, Rob Beard wrote:
>
> Just wondered if anyone else had this particular model running Ubuntu or
> had any other suggestions?
>
Could I suggest looking on some deals forums? I don't really want to
link to it in a list, but one I find quite useful is HotUKDeals.
There's a Medi
Hi folks,
Well the time has come where my mum and step-dad have decided to get on
t'internet so they're looking for a laptop. They were planning on
getting me to go with them to PC World to help choose one, but I've
convinced them to hang fire for a week so I can look into what is out there.
On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 10:18 +0100, Rob Beard wrote:
> The point is, it would be a tad annoying going out and buying a modem
> for a specific provider (Three, Vodafone, T-Mobile etc), finding that
> you can't get reception where you want to use it and then not being able
> to return it for a ref
Alan Bell wrote:
> Rob Beard wrote:
>
>> Matt Jones wrote:
>>
>>
>>> If he is only going to use it a small amount, then Vodafone offer the
>>> best deal, top up £15 for 1GB. Then use it until it runs out. With
>>> everyone else, your 1GB of data only lasts 30days, even if you haven't
>>>
Rob Beard wrote:
> Matt Jones wrote:
>
>> If he is only going to use it a small amount, then Vodafone offer the
>> best deal, top up £15 for 1GB. Then use it until it runs out. With
>> everyone else, your 1GB of data only lasts 30days, even if you haven't
>> used it all.
>>
>> Most of the dongle
On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 08:39 +0100, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
> On 04/09/09 08:27, Philip Wyett wrote:
>
> >
> > I use t-mobile (Huawei dongle) on laptops that 8.04 and up on. I have no
> > real issues using it bar one. To get 30 days of broadband at the fixed
> > £15 (3Gb download limit, but allows
Matt Jones wrote:
> If he is only going to use it a small amount, then Vodafone offer the
> best deal, top up £15 for 1GB. Then use it until it runs out. With
> everyone else, your 1GB of data only lasts 30days, even if you haven't
> used it all.
>
> Most of the dongles are plug and play, I'm not s
On 04/09/09 08:27, Philip Wyett wrote:
>
> I use t-mobile (Huawei dongle) on laptops that 8.04 and up on. I have no
> real issues using it bar one. To get 30 days of broadband at the fixed
> £15 (3Gb download limit, but allows to to browse even when exceeded and
> blocks downloads between 4pm and
On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 21:17 +0100, Jon Taylor wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I’m looking for some information. My father in law is looking to buy a
> laptop and broadband dongle. We’ve (sort of) found a laptop that we’re
> going to put Jaunty onto but I’d like to know if there are any ISP’s
> we should look
On 03/09/09 21:17, Jon Taylor wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I’m looking for some information. My father in law is looking to buy a
> laptop and broadband dongle. We’ve (sort of) found a laptop that we’re
> going to put Jaunty onto but I’d like to know if there are any ISP’s we
> should look at and also any
Jon
> I’m looking for some information. My father in law is looking to buy a
> laptop and broadband dongle. We’ve (sort of) found a laptop that we’re going
> to put Jaunty onto but I’d like to know if there are any ISP’s we should
> look at and also any we should avoid?
I found that the 3-mobile
>> Most of the dongles are plug and play, I'm not sure about the
>> Vodaphone one though, as the field has developed so quickly, then the
>> drivers aren't in Ubuntu yet for the most modern ones.
>
> The Vodafone K3565 works OK on Jaunty but I did need
> to change some of the default settings in Ne
> Most of the dongles are plug and play, I'm not sure about the
> Vodaphone one though, as the field has developed so quickly, then the
> drivers aren't in Ubuntu yet for the most modern ones.
The Vodafone K3565 works OK on Jaunty but I did need
to change some of the default settings in Network
Ma
My wife's Vodaphone dongle just works when I plug it into my EEEPC
running Jaunty 9.04. We bought it about six months ago and still have
£12 of the inclusive £15 left. In Windows you get a desktop app
which gives you information about useage, connection speed, etc,
which you don't get in Lin
If he is only going to use it a small amount, then Vodafone offer the
best deal, top up £15 for 1GB. Then use it until it runs out. With
everyone else, your 1GB of data only lasts 30days, even if you haven't
used it all.
Most of the dongles are plug and play, I'm not sure about the
Vodaphone one t
Hi all,
I'm looking for some information. My father in law is looking to buy a
laptop and broadband dongle. We've (sort of) found a laptop that we're going
to put Jaunty onto but I'd like to know if there are any ISP's we should
look at and also any we should avoid?
Also are there issues with don
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