On 15/05/11 23:16, Martin Houston wrote:
If I may make a suggestion?
I haven't used the Pcspecialist notebooks mentioned by Richard Smith
so cant comment on these particular choices, nice though it is to see
'No Operating system' as a money saving choice :)
However if we do indeed find that machines offered by vendors like
this who give the user the CHOICE of paying extra for Windows, and the
machine is well behaved with Ubuntu such that it and an Ubuntu install
CD could be given to a novice to go away and install, then we should
reward such vendors by trying to get the message that we like their
product out in as much online and print media as we can manage.
That 'free pubicity' would encourage other manufacturers to do the
same and we all get more choice of being able to not buy a crappy OS
we do not want and won't be using.
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I did some time back put up the site http://nakedcomputers.org which was
intended to promote the selling of blank computers (so not having to
advocate any particular operating system - just advocating unbundling
and choice) I was thinking on the ubuntu-uk.org site we could have a
list of vendors supplying blank or Ubuntu pre-installed computers to the
UK market (with correct plugs and keyboard layouts obviously). Sound
like a plan?
Alan.
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