<div dir="ltr">Hi There,<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 December 2016 at 08:34, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scrooyahoo@riseup.net" target="_blank">scrooyahoo@riseup.net</a>></span> wrote: <br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I mean, DELL only offered the most expensive machines with Ubuntu, (last time i looked) and only the main Flavour. I was shopping for a cheap notebook... So DELL was a big waste of time. Even when i asked support there was NO WAY they would sell me a cheap machine.<br>
Then when i reluctantly asked how long it would ship to europe then they told me that it was only available for the US market.<br></blockquote><div>My experience with refurbishing old Dells (towers, desktops, laptops) with L/Ubuntu has been very positive so far. I tend to be given old Dells that businesses have finished with to refurnish to give to people with mental health problems, their carers, their families.<br><br></div><div>I also have a refurbished lenovo ThinkPad T420 as my computer and it has been pretty good so far.<br><br></div><div>Before putting Linux on, though, I wipe the hard drive with dban and test the memory with memtest86+. Saves a lot of frustration.<br></div><div><br></div><div>BW,<br><br><br></div><div>Ian<br></div><div> <br></div></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>-- ACCU - Professionalism in programming - <a href="http://www.accu.org" target="_blank">http://www.accu.org</a><br></div>-- My writing - <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/</a><br><div>-- Free Software page - <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/home/free-software" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/home/free-software</a><br></div><br> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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