Contact your Trading Standards Department, you are not expected to be out of pocket due to defective goods. Michael
--- On Mon, 2/2/09, Alec Wright <ale...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Alec Wright <ale...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Buying a Acer Notebook..... > To: "British Ubuntu Talk" <ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com> > Date: Monday, 2 February, 2009, 5:27 PM > I got myself one of those. It's got a very dated an > unattractive > looking interface, and firefox 2 beta. It runs a 2.4 kernel > on a > MIPSEL processor. You cant reach the TTY or a graphical > shell, andthe > pacakge management/upgrade system doesnt work. The OS is a > lockdown so > you cant install anything else, except xenium linux which > is hacked to > work on it. When I tried xenium, it made it permanently > unbootable. > Then the battery exploded/melted. After a lot of arguing, i > got a > refund, but only for the notebook itself, and not the 16 > quid postage > both ways. > > 2009/2/2 Dr James Stevens-Turner <ja...@btguk.org>: > > John, > > > > Maplin are offering a laptop at £99.99 plus one at > £129.99, with Linux on! > > > > James. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: John > > To: British Ubuntu Talk > > Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 1:56 PM > > Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Buying a Acer Notebook..... > > I finally found a relatively cheap notebook with what > seems like good specs, > > and was wondering what people though of it. The only > thing it hasnt got is a > > dvd/cd player. I cant even find one that has. If > anybody knows of a notebook > > that has one can they let me know? > > > > The specs are > > > > Acer Aspire One A150-Aw Netbook, Linpus Linux Lite > version, 512MB DDR2 RAM, > > 120GB HD > > > > with a > > > > Kingston Technology 1GB 667MHz DDR2 Non-ECC CL5 SODIMM > > > > Insert as an extra, the whole package costs £200. > > > > I wondered if that was a good deal, also I wondered > how easy it would be to > > install Ubuntu on it. As it doesnt have a dvd/cd > player, would Ubuntu work > > on it, and how would I install it? > > > > Thank you. > > > > John > > > > ________________________________ > > > > -- > > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > > > > -- > > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > > > > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
