Acer One Aspire. Similar thoughts to the two Peters (C and H)
S'very light and easy to carry around. I like the big gap between the screen and the body (the hinges create this). Very nice to hook your fingers through when you carry it around. A nice secure hand hold indeed. Screen is sharp. Installed Ubuntu NBR - I REALLY like their GUI. Very functional for small screen. Build quality is great, keyboard is very good for its size. You get used to it really quickly. I even came to like the mouse keys being on either side of touchpad. Sound is good too. On occasions the SSD runs slow and there can be a pause in activity. Shut down can be slow sometimes (but I think this is probably the related to the SSD speed issues). One other thing is it connects via WiFi really quickly. Can't say the battery life is great, but I think the new NBRs have improved on that and it has the small battery. The one with more cells would certainly improve that. Camera works well with Skype. We had a party during which we Skyped a relative in the USA. We passed the netbook around and he was able to speak to and see everyone there and join in with the kids blowing out the candles. Good stuff. Then I took a vol redundancy and bought a Lenovo X200...weighs not much more than the Acer (costs a lot more though) and the Acer has become redundant. Anyone want to buy one? :)) Regards, Patrick (NB. I'd give it a good review even if I wasn't selling it :)) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
