If your not living on the edge. Your taking up too much room !
If your not living on the edge. Your taking up too much room !
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I bought this version of the acer aspire one before christmas 2008. Since I bought mine my mother brother and next door neighbour have all been so impressed that they to have purchased the exact same machine. My machine came pre installed with Linpus lite (lunix) which is a little strange if your used to windows in any form. From getting the machine out of the box i was online within 5 mins. It was so simple. The 1st thing you will need to do once you get connected is to goto the settings menu and click the live update. This gets all the up to date bits and bobs the aspire one needs to be upto date. This process is almost fully automated and took about 30mins tom update and install. The software included is more great - its not windows office, but a free version called open office it includes a good word processor, spreadsheet, and a presentation creator (like powerpoint). all these program`s have and option when you save to make them comptable with the windows equivelant. Everything runs at a good speed and is very similar to office software. There is a low resolution web cam which is fine for web chatting, but your not gonna win photographer of the year with it. There are 3 USB ports located on on the sides (2 on the right 1 on the left). Also a Erthanet port and too SD card slots. One of these will take upto an 8gb card and when its added it just blends into the Hard Drive so your hard drive goes from 120gb to 128gb . not amazing but handy little feature. There is a Instant messenger on the machine and it has a step by step setup guide, its compatable with MSN, Yahoo and quiet a few other chat programs.
The down sides: The 1st thing is the touchpad/mousepad its a little clumsy as the button are on the side and not on top of the pad so it makes it feel a bit odd. I have bought a cheap little USB mouse which is fine - dont get me wrong its perfectly useable with the touch pad, just a little awkward. The battery life, it claims the standard 3 cell battery that comes with the machine will give 3 hours of usage. In my experiance i have struggled t get 2 hours. My next investment is in the nine cell battery which should give around 8 hours. If you cant get on with the operating system it is fairly easy to install windows xp. But then you need to get the virus checker and all that installed. If your looking for a small and stylish and easy to use out of the box unit, this is so much better than most of the competition out there.
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