On 16/06/10 12:23, Barry Drake wrote: > On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 16:09 +0530, raj_mo...@dell.com wrote: >> Thank you for your email. We are still waiting for the update regarding your >> proposals and will contact you once we have the update. > > Thank you for your reply. Further update: the UK Dell site now carries > a range of two netbooks and three laptops that are available with Ubuntu > installed. Congratulations! I have shared this with the UK Ubuntu > list. There are two main comments. First: there is no longer a > bottom-end netbook to replace the Mini 10v. Any chance of bringing that > model back? It is a great little machine at an amazing price (this is > what I am using). > > Second: The website is very confusing. Depending on how the site is > searched, it returns varying numbers of Ubuntu machines. No Ubuntu > machines are seen to be available on a search from the Home and Home > Office pages, but only from the business user pages. > > Kind regards, Barry.
Dell could still do with updating their "Choose Windows or Ubuntu" page... http://tinyurl.com/yk4oryn Quote from the site: WHICH OPERATING SYSTEM SHOULD I CHOOSE ? UBUNTU is not a Microsoft Windows operating system - and is not compatible with Microsoft Office programs - so it's important you make the right choice: Choose WINDOWS if: * You are already using WINDOWS programs (e.g. Microsoft Office, ITunes etc) and want to continue using them * You are familiar with WINDOWS and do not want to learn new programs for email, word processing etc * You are new to using computers Choose UBUNTU if: * You do not plan to use Microsoft WINDOWS * You are interested in open source programming To be honest it looks like a pretty poor effort which hasn't been very well thought out (on either side!). I don't see how choosing Windows if you're new to using computers would help. I mean if you're new to computers then you're going to have to learn anyway the OS anyway, so using Windows, MacOS X, Linux, even a Commodore 64 shouldn't make any difference (okay I wouldn't really suggest a C64 for internet browsing). Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
