On 7 June 2015 at 10:50, alan c <aecl...@candt.waitrose.com> wrote: > I was very interested in the HP laptops on EBuyer - Ubuntu pre installed. > '..HP ProBook 455 Notebook PC is powered by an AMD A10-7300 APU with AMD > Radeon™ R6 Graphics. ..' > http://www.ebuyer.com/705955-hp-455-quad-core-laptop-l8b56es > > then I came across the caviat on the official certification site > ================== > 2) Standard images of Ubuntu may not work at all on the system or may not > work well, though Canonical and computer manufacturers will try to certify > the system with future standard releases of Ubuntu. > ================== > Mmm. Not so keen now. > > I dont mind mmc cards not working or some specific slowness, but 'Standard > images of Ubuntu may not work at all' For heavens sakes? > Looks like a no deal, and something of a poison pill?
My interpretation of that would be that the system will work as supplied but if you replaced the supplied system with a standard Ubuntu one there is no guarantee. I don't see that is unreasonable. One cannot expect them to guarantee that the machine will work with all future versions of Ubuntu any more than if you buy a Windows machine it is guaranteed to work with all future versions of Windows. You are still better off than buying one without Ubuntu pre-installed, as that is not guaranteed to work at all with Ubuntu. However I think I would want one with 14.04 not 12.04. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/