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 really > good reputation. Thanks again.
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 really mind. The chap that sold me mine suggested an SSD, as per Alan's suggestion, but it's quick enough for the light duties I put it to -- mainly writing. It has 4GB of RAM and seems to fly along with that for modest stuff. LibreOffice writer had some responsiveness issues so I've switched to Abiword, but otherwise, it's performing flawlessly. 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 this has fixed the issue. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/