Advantages: Fast, portable, comfortable, pretty variety of colours Disadvantages: No DVD drive, low battery life, gets hot, Linux crashes if modified too much
As we all know, a new type of machine is out, called the netbook. These were built for ease of use, speed and portability. Does the AspireOne fulfill these factors? Yes, perfectly. The AcerAspireOne is, in my opinion, one of the best netbooks on the market.
I grabbed of these for my birthday, when it was relatively new off Amazon. I got the version that had 120 GBs of hard drive memory, with Linpus Linux Lite. This edition of Linux was built specifically for the AspireOne, and it was extremely simple and easy to use. With an eye catching interface, a quick search bar and brilliantly obvious icons make accessing the internet and checking your email a breeze. In my opinion, for the casual user, the desktop is perfect, but for more advanced users Linux Lite is bad because Linux does not support much software and making changes to ...
Advantages: Price, size, speed Disadvantages: None so far
--Background--
My wife has always moaned that she could never get onto the family PC as it was always being used by either my kids or myself. After doing a bit of research, she convinced me to buy her the AcerAspireOne netbook which she would use for web browsing and writing simple documents. I was a bit sceptical of the device, after all, to me it was just a cheap laptop. But, alas, she won and off I went to Currys armed with my credit card to begrudingly buy her one.
--In the box--
The box in which the Aspire comes is very small. You'd be able to fit it under your arm and carry it no problem. As well as the netbook, there was a mains battery charger, a user manual and a recovery cd which I thought was strange considering there isnt a cd driver in the netbook!!
--Initial Setup--
I must admit I found this impressive ...
Advantages: ram, processor speed, design, screen, price Disadvantages: none so far
After giving up on my 2003 Packard Bell laptop, I decided to buy a new one. Now with 1000's of laptops available on the market. Where do you start? How do you decide which one is better than the other.
First look at your budget. I had up to £400 to play with. You can get a good Laptop for this price nowadays. Whats a good laptop?
I wanted something fast. Tired of wating yonks for web pages to load. Tired of crashing programs. So good RAM too.
For speed you need a good processor and RAM. With this computer I got both at a good price. 4 gb of RAM and a intel core duo 2 processor wont leave you stuck in mud.
I wanted a good quality screen too. It has a nice and bright 14.5 inch screen, It is glossy and slick. Very nice. You can watch movies on it no problem and video games too.
Mine came with 150gb of hard drive. Enough ...
The new Acer Aspire One will feature a 10.1-inch LCD display, capable of providing a 1024x600 pixel resolution, as well as an Intel Atom 1.6 Ghz N280/N270 CPU and 1 GB of DD2 RAM. Plus, the netbook will be using a 160GB HDD and a multi-touch capable touchpad.
