Buying a Laptop without xxxxing Vista on?
Surely not a strange question in this day and age but seem to be as rare as rocking horse shit?
All I want is a cheap - preferably sub £300 - laptop that doesn't come with bloody Vista on it IE something that boots and runs applications the same day that I want to use them and doesn't require most of the HDD to do so!
All I want it for is general day to day use:
Office/Open Office
Thunderbird
Firefox
Skype
Decent messenger that connects to Windows Live Messenger with video (as Skype isn't always the answer!)
Built in Wireless
Preferably built in webcam but not that important.
I know I could just get anything and either change to a dual boot or load Linux on myself but really don't want the hassle of of finding drivers and spending hours tweaking. Probably settle for XP at a push but object to buying yet another OS I don't need.
Only one I can find is
Dell Inspiron 1525 for £299 delivered which comes with Ubuntu
Acer Aspire One or Eee PCs are nice - Toni has the Acer - but a bit too small for me - Keyboard is fine but nowhere to comfortably rest hands when using mouse.
Mainly a rant but suggestions welcome!
All I want is a cheap - preferably sub £300 - laptop that doesn't come with bloody Vista on it IE something that boots and runs applications the same day that I want to use them and doesn't require most of the HDD to do so!
All I want it for is general day to day use:
Office/Open Office
Thunderbird
Firefox
Skype
Decent messenger that connects to Windows Live Messenger with video (as Skype isn't always the answer!)
Built in Wireless
Preferably built in webcam but not that important.
I know I could just get anything and either change to a dual boot or load Linux on myself but really don't want the hassle of of finding drivers and spending hours tweaking. Probably settle for XP at a push but object to buying yet another OS I don't need.
Only one I can find is
Dell Inspiron 1525 for £299 delivered which comes with Ubuntu
Acer Aspire One or Eee PCs are nice - Toni has the Acer - but a bit too small for me - Keyboard is fine but nowhere to comfortably rest hands when using mouse.
Mainly a rant but suggestions welcome!