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 Ubuntu 14.10 at a fair speed. The thing is, I don't > want to go much larger in physical size. 10" or so is ideal for me. I > tried an Android tablet, but really prefer the netbook. I could get by > with a tablet running Ubuntu if there were such a thing, but I can't > understand why netbooks are now in a minority. I could possibly go for > a low-end Windows netbook if I knew for certain that it was fully > compatible with Ubuntu. Obviously I prefer not to pay for an OS that > I'm going to wipe! > > 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.
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/ -- Registered Linux User #466407 http://counter.li.org -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
