[ubuntu-uk] Encouraging laptops that work with Ubuntu

[Alan Bell]

On 15/05/11 23:16, Martin Houston wrote:
> If I may make a suggestion?
>
> I haven't used the Pcspecialist notebooks mentioned by Richard Smith 
> so cant comment on these particular choices, nice though it is to see 
> 'No Operating system' as a money saving choice :)
>
> However if we do indeed find that machines offered by vendors like 
> this who give the user the CHOICE of paying extra for Windows, and the 
> machine is well behaved with Ubuntu such that it and an Ubuntu install 
> CD could be given to a novice to go away and install, then we should 
> reward such vendors by trying to get the message that we like their 
> product out in as much online and print media as we can manage.
>
> That 'free pubicity' would encourage other manufacturers to do the 
> same and we all get more choice of being able to not buy a crappy OS 
> we do not want and won't be using.
>
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I did some time back put up the site http://nakedcomputers.org which was 
intended to promote the selling of blank computers (so not having to 
advocate any particular operating system - just advocating unbundling 
and choice) I was thinking on the ubuntu-uk.org site we could have a 
list of vendors supplying blank or Ubuntu pre-installed computers to the 
UK market (with correct plugs and keyboard layouts obviously). Sound 
like a plan?

Alan.