Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

2014-10-16 Thread Barry Drake
On 15/10/14 11:06, Barry Drake wrote: Hi there . Just to say I'm really delighted with my Lenovo X201 which arrived yesterday. Now I have to decide what to do with my Samsung N150. It has a Windows 7 home licence. If I put it on e-bay, I'm not going to get much interest unless I put W

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

2014-10-16 Thread Barry Drake
On 16/10/14 14:18, Liam Proven wrote: On 16 October 2014 10:53, wrote: I can't speak to your exact model of laptop, but my Lenovo W520 has such a light and it works as expected under 14.04. I didn't have to apply any tricks, I just hit fn+PgUp and it turns on. So I should expect yours ought

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

2014-10-16 Thread Liam Proven
On 16 October 2014 10:53, wrote: > I can't speak to your exact model of laptop, but my Lenovo W520 has such a > light and it works as expected under 14.04. I didn't have to apply any > tricks, I just hit fn+PgUp and it turns on. So I should expect yours ought to > be supported out of the box.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

2014-10-16 Thread jim.cameron
> Hi there . Just to say I'm really delighted with my Lenovo X201 which arrived yesterday. It's now running 14.10 really well and I'm impressed with every aspect. It's supposed to have a light which turns on using fn+PgUp but that doesn't seem to work. Is there a trick, or is the light brok

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

2014-10-15 Thread Barry Drake
Hi there . Just to say I'm really delighted with my Lenovo X201 which arrived yesterday. It's now running 14.10 really well and I'm impressed with every aspect. It's supposed to have a light which turns on using fn+PgUp but that doesn't seem to work. Is there a trick, or is the light br

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

2014-10-14 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 13 October 2014 18:43, J Fernyhough wrote: > On 13 October 2014 13:11, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > > > > How do you find the battery life on your Lenovo x? > > I have a Lenovo U410 and the battery life, even with TPL installed never > > goes much over 3 hours...which is a pita > > I ca

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

2014-10-13 Thread J Fernyhough
On 13 October 2014 13:11, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > > How do you find the battery life on your Lenovo x? > I have a Lenovo U410 and the battery life, even with TPL installed never > goes much over 3 hours...which is a pita I can get 3 hours repeatably, but this is not light-use. There's

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

2014-10-13 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
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 real

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

2014-10-13 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
  How do you find the battery life on your Lenovo x? I have a Lenovo U410 and the battery life, even with TPL installed never goes much over 3 hours...which is a pita  Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2014 at 4:13 PM From: "J Fernyhough" To: "UK Ubuntu Talk" Subject:

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 reall

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 Alan Pope
On 7 October 2014 13:35, Liam Proven 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 at all and t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

2014-10-07 Thread Liam Proven
On 6 October 2014 16:16, Barry Drake 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 really > good reputation. Th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

2014-10-07 Thread Alan Pope
On 6 October 2014 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 > I recently bought a Thinkpad X61S from e

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

2014-10-06 Thread Barry Drake
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. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/list

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

2014-10-06 Thread alan c
On 06/10/14 15:16, Barry Drake wrote: > On 05/10/14 09:49, Bruno Girin wrote: >> I've had IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads for the last 10 years and they've all >> run Ubuntu brilliantly. Thinkpads are one of the safest choices to run >> Ubuntu (or any Linux distro): it generally just works. > > Thanks to a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

2014-10-06 Thread Barry Drake
On 05/10/14 09:49, Bruno Girin wrote: I've had IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads for the last 10 years and they've all run Ubuntu brilliantly. Thinkpads are one of the safest choices to run Ubuntu (or any Linux distro): it generally just works. Thanks to all of you for your advice. I've found a refurbishe

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

2014-10-05 Thread Bill B.
On Sat, 2014-10-04 at 16:36 +0100, Simon Greenwood wrote: > 7dayshop.com have some refurbished Acer Aspire One notebooks slightly off topic - but re the Acer Aspire One. I have an Aspire One [150] quite happily running Lubuntu. Anybody here know the best place [preferably in UK] to buy a replace

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

2014-10-05 Thread Tony Pursell
Asus have launched their EeeBook X205 but I don't know if anyone in the UK stocks it yet. Tony (wriiten on my trusty Eee PC 1015PEM with Ubuntu 14.04) On 5 October 2014 15:51, Liam Proven wrote: > On 4 October 2014 19:46, Barry Drake wrote: > > Thanks. That seems very good. I'm tempted. I g

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

2014-10-05 Thread Liam Proven
On 4 October 2014 19:46, Barry Drake wrote: > Thanks. That seems very good. I'm tempted. I gather there are no > compatibility problems at all? Did you take a backup of Windows in case it > had to go back under warranty? That's a newer-gen model than the one I bought, which was from a collea

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

2014-10-05 Thread Bruno Girin
On 4 October 2014 18:46, Barry Drake wrote: > > Thanks. That seems very good. I'm tempted. I gather there are no > compatibility problems at all? Did you take a backup of Windows in case it > had to go back under warranty? > I've had IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads for the last 10 years and they've all

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

2014-10-04 Thread Barry Drake
On 04/10/14 18:28, Liam Proven wrote: Suggestion: http://www.morgancomputers.co.uk/product_detail/14830/Lenovo-IBM-X201-Intel-i5-520M-2-4GHz-12-1-Laptop-4GB-160GB-Windows-7-Pro/ Thanks. That seems very good. I'm tempted. I gather there are no compatibility problems at all? Did you take a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

2014-10-04 Thread Liam Proven
On 4 October 2014 16:25, Barry Drake wrote: > I want to upgrade to something faster that can run Ubuntu 14.10 at a fair > speed. I had much the same feeling with my Acer Aspire One. I sold it -- £100 :-) -- and bought a Thinkpad X200. Slightly bigger but dramatically faster with a lovely keyb

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

2014-10-04 Thread David King
I have an Asus EeePC from a few years ago which still runs well. I was using PinguyOS (based on Ubuntu and Mint) but that became quite out of date and I did not like the newer versions (but was never too slow). So I decided to install Linux Lite which is based on Ubuntu, using version 14.04 so

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

2014-10-04 Thread Bruno Girin
> [...] as I really love Unity (Barry puts on hard hat and ducks). I agree, I love Unity too! -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

2014-10-04 Thread Barry Drake
On 04/10/14 17:14, Simon Greenwood wrote: PCSpecialist machines are essentially the same ones that System 76 use so they should be fine, and if not the System 76 drivers should help. Thanks. That's reassuring. Regards,Barry. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mail

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

2014-10-04 Thread Barry Drake
On 04/10/14 16:36, Simon Greenwood wrote: 7dayshop.com have some refurbished Acer Aspire One notebooks at £179.99 which might fit the bill. They're nice little machines - I have a similarly specced Lenovo Edge for mobile use, and they happily run Xubuntu. Looks good - bu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

2014-10-04 Thread Simon Greenwood
PCSpecialist machines are essentially the same ones that System 76 use so they should be fine, and if not the System 76 drivers should help. s/ On 4 October 2014 17:01, Barry Drake wrote: > On 04/10/14 16:24, Mark Fraser wrote: > >> There's the 11.6" Mirage II from PC Specialist which is £237 i

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

2014-10-04 Thread Barry Drake
On 04/10/14 16:24, Mark Fraser wrote: There's the 11.6" Mirage II from PC Specialist which is £237 if you remove Windows 8. http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/mirageII/ That sounds interesting. Thanks. I've bought two desktops from pcspecialist and have been delighted. My only gripe is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

2014-10-04 Thread Barry Drake
On 04/10/14 16:13, J Fernyhough wrote: It was easier for me to search for this than actually measure it... ;) Sorry - I should have tried! Sizewise it's doable (just). I use a fairly small backpack as cabin luggage when flying. I'll consider for a while. Regards,Barry. -- ubunt

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

2014-10-04 Thread Simon Greenwood
7dayshop.com have some refurbished Acer Aspire One notebooks at £179.99 which might fit the bill. They're nice little machines - I have a similarly specced Lenovo Edge for mobile use, and they happily run Xubuntu. I would find a cheap 64GB or 128GB SSD to improve battery life if you were going to b

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

2014-10-04 Thread Mark Fraser
On Saturday 04 Oct 2014 15:25:26 Barry Drake wrote: > Hi there . I just got back after some time away using my netbook. > It is a Samsung N150 currently running Lubuntu 14.04 as it had become > far too slow on recent Ubuntu releases. I want to upgrade to something > faster that can run Ubunt

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

2014-10-04 Thread J Fernyhough
On 4 October 2014 16:00, Barry Drake wrote: > Thanks for that. I'm looking at an X220 on e-bay. The spec is terrific. > It's a bit bigger than I really wanted, but it is a possibility. What is > the overall height and width of your X61 please? > It was easier for me to search for this than act

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

2014-10-04 Thread Barry Drake
On 04/10/14 15:35, J Fernyhough wrote: I'd look at a refurbished Lenovo X series. There are X61s for under £100 and X220/X230s available for around £300-400. The X61 I have runs pretty darned nicely (and with only a C2D T7300), much faster than standard netbooks (e.g. Chromebooks) but an X230 w

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

2014-10-04 Thread J Fernyhough
On 4 October 2014 15:25, Barry Drake wrote: > > Any thoughts or suggestions? I don't do gaming - I just want something that > will do e-mails, internet and documents. I use cloud sync for documents and > I keep Thunderbird and Firefox in sync with my desktop. > > Kind regards,Barry. I'd