My Acer Aspire One is two years old, came with: Linpus; 1Gb RAM; 120Gb HDD. It's never had a problem running the full desktop Ubuntu. Some of them at that time did come with 512mb RAM in which case I would upgrade to 1Gb and go from there.
Hope that helps. Bruce On 4 February 2011 21:22, Dianne Reuby <pramc...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > A friend has asked me to look at her husbands netbook, which is running > Linux. He bought it from Tesco two years ago, so I think it probably > *is* Ubuntu. > > His problems are mainly that it doesn't recognise USB devices when > they're plugged in, and it downloads updates but doesn't install them. > He wants to do more than email and web browsing, which is all he feels > he can do at the moment (it has shortcuts on the desktop for email and > firefox). > > If it's two years old, and he hasn't upgraded, will it be pre-Unity? As > I've never used a netbook, only Ubuntu on desktops and laptops, will I > be able to find my way around it? > > She thinks his cunning plan is to break it so he can buy a new one, but > I don't want to be the one that breaks it! :) > > TIA > > Dianne > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
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