Acer Netbook (Catshill B61)

I’m giving away again, this time, an Acer netbook as shown, which I've refurbished with a new operating system, Linux Mint. (Netbooks are small laptops without a built in disk drive, but you can buy plug-in USB disk drives fairly cheaply on eBay.)

This is an old-but-goodish 64-bit basic computer, not a gaming pc or anything with high-end graphics or superfast processor, but it should do the essentials & have most of the software you might need - Linux software is pretty well all free.

The accompanying photos show what it looks like, plus it comes with a power lead/adapter to charge or run it off the mains. It also has a touchpad, although if you prefer to use a wi-fi mouse, these can be obtained very cheaply via eBay.

Along with its easy-to-use Linux Mint operating system with the Mate desktop environment, it comes with entirely-free & Microsoft-compatible complete office, internet, media & utilities software suites including LibreOffice, Firefox browser, Thunderbird email, VLC media player, GIMP image editor, and many more plus access to the free Flathub software repository with lots more free programs - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Mint, https://www.techspot.com/downloads/5570-linux-mint.html and https://mate-desktop.org for more info.

This is NOT a first-come-first-served offer - what I'm interested in is helping somebody who needs a basic computer for work, college, job, family or whatever to help with their life but doesn't have the wherewithal - you can ask for yourself or any member of your family or a friend, but this offer isn't just for the asking & I need enough detail to judge properly whatever requests I get. It must also be somebody able to collect it reasonably soon, with access to the internet for updating.

You don't need to be a computer expert to use Linux Mint, any more than you need to know how a car works to drive one, and there's a huge user community out there who'll help newbies too - it's based on Ubuntu Linux (itself based on Debian) and similar to Ubuntu Mate, in use by a huge number of people around the world.

A basic introductory guide to this laptop and also to Linux generally will be supplied.

The more you tell me about why you need it, the more likely you are to be given this laptop, and if you're requesting for your children's schoolwork, I need to know which school they go to check its requirements.

I generally turn down more requests than I accept for lack of information - you have been warned!

I have been DBS/CRB checked and also recognised by Worcestershire County Council as a Digital Champion volunteer to help people.

Thank you for reading!

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