OK, maybe I'm wrong, maybe I can buy the business notebooks too (I'm checking on their site but I can't find the information). But this is something silly, if this is my only option. Maybe there's a way I can order another Dell, but the point doesn't change: if you enter a shop, you find tons of models, but can't be confident on no one of those, for a good ubuntu install. notebooks are sold with tags like ACER 1234 F13-xz2: my ACER 1234 can be different from another ACER 1234. Setting up sites like linlap or http://www.ubuntuhcl.org/, if you can't be 100% sure that you're speaking of the very same notebook, are not useful. About your last guess, I don't agree. A person with a ubuntu cd on his hand can try to put it on his notebook. But if he face problems, he's not supposed to know the way to fix them.. and this happens for the majority of the notebook out there. On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Martin Wildam