already been done...
"I reckon Cannonical need to make a 'notebook PC for your gran' ..... with hardware all tested to work, no worried with drivers, hardware conflicts."
Already been done, there's a number of offical partners out there (Including Dell - http://tinyurl.com/39m5sr)
@ Adrian (Thursday 10th July 2008 15:11 GMT)
If your unable to click through the dialog that comes up when you go to a site that has flash player embedded to install Adobe Flash (or Gnash) then you really should just put your PC back in it's box, return it to PC World (where people like you seem to buy machines) and tell them your too stupid to use a computer and that you'd like a refund.
All it requires for flash is for you to accept the licence agreement and click next a few times, works for my family quite nicely.