[ubuntu-in] Netbooks - suggestions and advise

[Ramnarayan.K]

Dear James,
Hi

Once again thanks for the link

and also for opening up the discussion to Ubuntu and education.

In fact i have just emerged from a Computer Class - where we providing young
children of our community (a rural mountain community) a chance to learn and
use a computer. We are using 2 Ubuntu machines and one OLPC - the olpc is
justb a familiarisation exercise while they get on with major learning on
the two old laptops.

For us long term quality is very important - and while none of the models
(samsung / Asus) provided pre loaded ubuntu atleast they give us DOS and for
a smaller price. Then we go around installing Ubuntu .

It the last year i have helped 4 people by laptops - an since people
depended on me to ensure a good buy the cost charged was to have their
laptops converted to Ubuntu. 3 of these 4 users are first time novices so
they start directly on Ubuntu - no wincedows shindows.

@ Simmtronics - i phoned them shortly after your mail and got a rude reply
that the number provided on their website is not for sales enquiiries and i
should phone some other number, The woman on line was quite rude , however
am giving it one more go by maiing them. Lets see what happens, will let you
know

regards
ram


On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:07 AM, James Sebastian <james.sebastian at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Dear Ram,
>
> Thanks for quick reply.
>
> See this news item as well.
>
> http://www.thinkdigit.com/Laptops-PCs/Simmtronics-and-VIA-team-up-to-offer_5977.html
>
> No harm in checking it out if you are in one of the cities.
> As some one with 12 years of IT experience and now trying open source way
> to make a living, I am keen to see Ubuntu succeed and to see what are the
> possible options here for lay men (apart from very geek ones). I got few
> friends across India willing to move to Ubuntu, but none of them are geeky
> in nature, but just uses a PC for day to day life. But I do see most of them
> struggles if wireless or wire network or something similar does work out of
> the box.
>
> So since I like open source to succeed I like these kind of offers to
> succeed. So  I would appreciate if you can visit one of these stores and
> post feelers. I may try to visit one of the stores next time I am in delhi
> as well.
>
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