[ubuntu-uk] a new laptop

[Sean Miller]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:33 PM, Johnathon Tinsley <kirrus at kirrus.co.uk>
wrote:

> They will, I've asked them before about it. It'll have an American power
> supply, so you'll need a converter (or to buy a compatible one from ebay
> or somewhere...). I couldn't be bothered with the hassle, so decided not
> to bother, but if they ever start supplying the UK officially, they'll
> be number one on my list...


The power supplies are, I think, 110-240V so all you actually need is one of
those £2 or similar adaptor plugs that you see in chemists/airports etc. so
I wouldn't necessarily get put off by the fact it's a US power supply at
all.

But I'm not convinced about savings - Tesco, for instance, will do you an HP
Pavilion Dual Core laptop with Vista installed for £379.99 boasting 2GB of
RAM (the $699 one in the states - which works out almost exactly the same
price as the Tesco HP, only has 1GB), NVIDIA graphics (that's an extra $125
on the states one), 120GB hard drive (again, extra) etc... and that's before
you take into account the duty to be paid on US imports, delivery charges,
difficulty in getting the thing back to the manufacturers if it goes wrong
etc. etc.

Up until recently hardware compatability was an issue but I've not recently
had any great issues with onboard wireless in Ubuntu and sound, graphics
etc. are all well supported.

Sean
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