I am sorry if this has come up before, also about cross posting, but I havent been able to find anything about it, so wanted to as about it.
I am a from the UK, and because of my laptop not being up to Ubuntu specs, I have been looking into buying a laptop with ubuntu already installed. I have a friend in the USA that has just bought what he says is a really good Dell laptop with ubuntu in it for just over $400. I have been looking at the UK Dell site to fimd that the very basic Ubuntu Installed laptops by Dell, start at £300 plus Vat almost double the pirce in the USA. How come there is such a huge difference in cost? I know Dell is separate company to Ubuntu, but surely Ubuntu must have gone to discussions about their software being installed on laptops in this country. Being a new user, I really like Ubuntu, but I'm finding it extremely frustrating not being able to use it, admittedly mainly due to my lack of experience with it, but if I could find a laptop with it already installed at a cost like they are in the USA I would dump Windows altogether, and be able to concentrate on learning Ubuntu without having to get around the problems I'm finding using it in a dual boot environment. Right now, I lost the use of my laptop in the Ubuntu boot, after trying to install the update from 8.04 to 8.10. I find it really frustrating that to get my Ubuntu back, I have to tell ubuntu not to load compiz, which takes up a lot of what Ubuntu is. Which means I'm missing out on a lot of the functions of Ubuntu. So why, if Ubuntu is trying to get more people to use their products are they making it so difficult and costly for people like me who are on the lower incomes, to be able to use their products? Is Dell the only company selling laptops with Ubuntu already installed? Does anybody know of any other company that sells them cheaper, or would I have to get one from the USA. If I do have to buy from the USA, will it work in the UK? Its really frustrating. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
