On 21/02/11 18:29, alan c wrote:
On 21/02/11 18:06, Rob Beard wrote:
On 21/02/11 16:45, Ross Mounce wrote:
[It's my first post: Hi all!]
I often hear that it's rare to find UK vendors selling computers with
Ubuntu pre-installed.
So I was pleasantly suprised to see this:
http://www.dinopc.com/shop/pc/NEW-Nanosaur-410-95p966.htm
...comes pre-installed with "Linux Ubuntu 10" [sic]
Actually that doesn't seem too bad, it's not that much cheaper at trade
price :-)
On a related note. I'm looking to buy a multi-core desktop, and a
netbook.
Any suggestions as to where I can get these aside from the
aforementioned vendor?
* I want to avoid having to pay extra for M$ software that I won't use
* I'm on a student budget, so the cheaper the better!
Not sure about a Netbook but for a multi-core desktop, have you
considered building one yourself?
If you don't fancy that option then you could try eBuyer.com, Aria.co.uk
or Novatech, they all sell PCs with or without an OS.
I notice that Novatech have a Linux forum and netbooks(?) like the X10
have models which change over product time. One recently has been the
subject of a struggle with certain configuration, later solved.
Ahh I haven't looked at Novatech's site for a while, I'll have a look.
On the subject of self build: bent pins and thermal compound - some
mainboard bundles are sold with CPU fully assembled and tested. I think
novatech do this, for example.
Aria do this, I'm sure other suppliers do too. Saying that, it isn't
too bad fitting a CPU into a motherboard. I found it to be more risky
with the Athlon and Athlon XP CPUs where the die could get crushed under
a badly fitted heatsink (when I worked at eBuyer it was a common thing
to happen, customers would fit a heatsink incorrectly and chip the die
causing a dead CPU which wasn't covered by warranty).
Although with the Socket 775 (and socket 1156/1366) and the AM2/AM3 CPUs
they have a metal plate over the core which protects them. As long as
you're careful you shouldn't have any issues (some CPU coolers also come
with heatsink compound pre-applied).
Saying that, I have managed to break a pin off of a Phenom X4 once, but
that was more of a case of my own stupidity :-P (luckily the CPU was
free, but I still almost cried!).
Rob
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