I love my Acer Aspire One, but it's time for a new one. What are people buying for small-form-factor netbook equivalents these days? All I can find on Google are laments that netbooks are dead. :(
I don't need super-fast, or super-powerful. I need small, light, and runs Linux. Cheers, Andrew On 26/07/2015, Steve Holdoway <[email protected]> wrote: > On 26/07/15 16:10, criggie wrote: >> On 26/07/15 12:00, [email protected] wrote: >>> I read that comment and thought "Is it an acer? I bet its an acer" >> I've got a couple of acers. I have never spent any money to buy them, >> and having seen the construction I never will. >> >> One was a travelmate, their upper-range business class model with an >> "all day" battery. >> >> It worked well enough, but sometimes just misbehaved, crashing or >> freezing or rebooting. The owner was positive it had an anger sensor, >> cos the madder it made him the more it acted up. >> >> I thought "pssht whatever" but it turns out he was right - the mouse >> button microswitches were soldered directly to the mainboard not a >> daughterboard on the case. So whenever he got a bit angry he pressed >> the mouse buttons harder, which flexed the board resulting in general >> non-specific funkiness. >> >> I told the owner the cause, and admitted that he was kinda right. Has >> not let me forget it to this day.... >> >> >> --------------- >> >> Power sockets live longer if you avoid stowing the laptop with the >> power plug connected. This puts undue stresses on the plug/socket >> and makes it weak. >> Also avoid pushing laptop back when its plugged in, same reasoning. >> >> The fixes are >> 1) Get a dock and use it - only generally fits one model/brand of laptop. >> 2) Don't put the laptop in a bag with the PSU cable attached. >> 3) Use laptops with sideways plugs on the PSU, or magsafe style >> connectors. >> >> >> > TBH I've used Acers for decades... I'm typing on one as we speak. > > The number that have failed in this way is zero. In fact failing battery > life plus the ever increasing need for more power is what has has caused > me to supersede them. > > I do have my backup 15 year old Tosh that's working fine though! > > Steve > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
