GaryTheCat
November 25th, 2012, 05:55 PM
Hello
I'm thinking of buying my girlfriend a new laptop for her birthday. She's not the most computer literate person in the world but seemed to do OK with Xubuntu on an old laptop.
I've just been to the local PC shop to look at Windows 8 (as I've not seen it before) and to be honest, it looks like it would just confuse her - it made me feel a bit ill looking at the UI and I think any reasonable human being would just want to get rid of it.
The machine I was thinking of is https://www.adventcomputers.co.uk/product/advent-monza-t100-156-laptop
It looks to have a reasonable spec (6 Gb RAM) for a very reasonable price. Looking at the specs, is there anything that leaps out saying "Ubuntu won't work well on this?"
I've searched the forums and the only thing that may be an issue is the webcam - although I'm not sure that would get any use anyway.
Any help / pointers / advice is most welcome.
Many thanks
G
I'm thinking of buying my girlfriend a new laptop for her birthday. She's not the most computer literate person in the world but seemed to do OK with Xubuntu on an old laptop.
I've just been to the local PC shop to look at Windows 8 (as I've not seen it before) and to be honest, it looks like it would just confuse her - it made me feel a bit ill looking at the UI and I think any reasonable human being would just want to get rid of it.
The machine I was thinking of is https://www.adventcomputers.co.uk/product/advent-monza-t100-156-laptop
It looks to have a reasonable spec (6 Gb RAM) for a very reasonable price. Looking at the specs, is there anything that leaps out saying "Ubuntu won't work well on this?"
I've searched the forums and the only thing that may be an issue is the webcam - although I'm not sure that would get any use anyway.
Any help / pointers / advice is most welcome.
Many thanks
G