Buying a laptop without MS

[Bohdan S]

Ya i know they can b worked around but i know my mum could figure out the
ork arounds if you get my drift. it may be easy for us more
"computer-literate" people but not the average user.
on that note i will talk to my boss about laptops with no windows. i work in
the illawarra area so it might be a good idea :D

On 6/22/06, Paul Schulz <pschulz01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Bohdan,
>
> On 6/15/06, Bohdan S <bohdan.s at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > Selling laptops with ubuntu i dont think is a great idea as yet, me and
> all
> > my uni freinds are currently running ubuntu on laptops and ALL of us
> have
> > some issue somewhere with it, all have problems with WPA wireless for
> > example and only half of us have things like battery monitering,
> > suspend/hibanate and speetstep control
>
> Do you have, or could you get, a list of laptop models and hardware
> that you have issues with... (particularly if you bought the machines
> in Australia)
>
> Unless you've already done it, there are pages on the Ubuntu Wiki
> where you can list your laptop and the issues that are still
> outstanding. There are also help instructions on how to test a laptop
> with Ubuntu.
>
>   https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportMachinesLaptops
>   https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTesting
>
> There is also the 'hwdb-gui' tool which you can use to automatically
> report hardware issues for Ubuntu developers if you connected to the
> internet.
>
> Every little bit of information helps make Ubuntu better for everyone.
>
> > Bohdan
>
> Cheers,
> Paul Schulz
>



-- 
Bohdan
bohdan.s at gmail.com

(Peace, Love and All that Hippy Bullcrap. -The Management)
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