Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

2014-10-07 Thread Alan Pope
On 6 October 2014 21:32, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: On 06/10/14 20:40, alan c wrote: Barry pls tell link? thx Hi Alan . The link is closed now as I bought the item - but the seller has others and is at: http://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/bnicomputers I recently bought a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

2014-10-07 Thread Liam Proven
On 6 October 2014 16:16, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: Thanks to all of you for your advice. I've found a refurbisher on e-bay who is willing to supply a Lenovo X201 with no OS and a full guarantee, so I'm going for that. The price is great and the seller seems to have a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

2014-10-07 Thread Alan Pope
On 7 October 2014 13:35, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: JOOI I saw some very minor screen corruption issues under 13.10 -- one character would sometimes get random snow in it, occasionally repeated in a few places around the screen. However the machine upgraded to 14.04 with no problems

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

2014-10-07 Thread alan c
On 06/10/14 21:32, Barry Drake wrote: On 06/10/14 20:40, alan c wrote: Barry pls tell link? thx Hi Alan . The link is closed now as I bought the item - but the seller has others and is at: http://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/bnicomputers Kind regards,Barry. Hi Barry Thanks! --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

2014-10-07 Thread Barry Drake
On 07/10/14 13:35, Liam Proven wrote: Cool. Well, I hope it's all right and that you have no problems with it. It is a bit bigger than my old netbook, it's true, so a bit less portable, but it is /so/ much better as a computer -- better keyboard, better screen, much faster -- that I don't