[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu on Dell (revisited) ....

[Mark Fraser]

On Saturday 29 May 2010 15:10:40 Liam Proven wrote:
> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Dianne Reuby <pramclub at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 15:18 -0400, e-mail b.drake wrote:
> >> On 28 May 2010 14:21, Bruno Girin <brunogirin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> 
> >>         There you go:
> >>         http://www.connectotel.com/marcus/ceoemail.html
> >> 
> >> Wonderful!  Thanks for that.  I've e-mailed Michael Dell with a very
> >> polite e-mail, and I've bookmarked the page.  Now I'll wait eagerly
> >> for a reply.  If there's anything of interest I'll copy it here.
> >> 
> >> Thanks, Barry Drake.
> > 
> > And I've emailed Canonical, to suggest they update the website as Dell
> > don't supply Ubuntu machines in the UK. Those on the US site look quite
> > nice ...
> 
> As far as I can see, they do, and your actions are very unhelpful.
> 
> Here are the results of going to www.dell.co.uk and searching for the
> single word "ubuntu":
> 
> http://search.euro.dell.com/results.aspx?s=gen&c=uk&l=en&cs=&k=ubuntu&cat=a
> ll&x=0&y=0
> 
> Note, no less than 7 different models.

Have you actually tried clicking on them though? Most of them only have the 
option of selecting Windows XP or 7, as far as I can see the only 2 that have 
Ubuntu on them are the Latitude 2100 and 2110.

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