Yep the screen is awful for photos or having more than one person look at it. Or for watching video. Well, anything but staring directly at it in low light whil

Yep the screen is awful for photos or having more than one person look at it. Or for watching video. Well, anything but staring directly at it in low light while reading text! No problem with my spacebar. I suspect you have a dodgy keyboard. I haven't looked to see how the spacebar is held together in this model, but it might just be dirt so you may get away with pulling it off (don't say I told you to do that!) and putting it back, but, well, at least a replacement keyboard is cheap and easy to fit. The 'will still annoy you' comment comes from my memory of stuff not quite working 100%, but I really can't remember what was up now - perhaps it was just when it was in a VM that there were problems. If there was something broken, though, it was probably wifi. That seems the most common problem I have with Linux on laptops these days. Will give Debian Wheezy a try and see how it goes, thanks!