>From experience, the pcspecialists machines work faultlessly with Ubuntu. Just fyi, You do need to use a proprietary wifi driver though.
Sent from my HTC Desire HD running Android On 16 Jan 2011 17:40, "George Tripp" <luggeo...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Up to now I've put Ubuntu on ancient PCs I already had. Currently I'm thinking > about getting a laptop but don't want to spend my hard earned cash find I've > bought something that can't run the operating system I wish to. > > Looked at a couple of companies which will sell machines without any op system. > Pcspecialists: apparently there's a problem that the touchhpad doesn't work with > ubuntu > Novatech: don't know if their hardware is compatible with ubuntu or not > > Looked round PC World a few machines there look reasonable spec/price but don't > appear on the Ubuntu-certified hardware list. > > What do other people do? Any advice? > > > > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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