[ubuntu-uk] buying a laptop?

[Alan Pope]

On 17 January 2011 14:56, Barry Drake <bdrake at crosswire.org> wrote:
> Ed Bernard at http://www.elpatech.co.uk sells his Ubuntu computers for
> the same price as his barebones ones.  He says that giving support to
> his Windows PC's costs him far more than supporting Ubuntu!  Especially
> since the magnificent 7.
>

Interesting experience. I know when someone asks me for Windows
support my heart sinks because I know it's often a long maze of twisty
corridors. When my mum phones up with a problem on her Ubuntu machine
however, I can almost always fix it in a matter of seconds or minutes
over ssh/vnc.

Cheers,
Al.