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Acer Aspire One

Submitted by Pete on Sun, 09/28/2008 - 6:10pm.

Yesterday I got my hands on a brand new Acer Aspire One! The 25cm mini laptop currently on sale for £180 at Comet packs in great power and portability.

Tech Spec

Processor: 1.6ghz Intel Atom
Memory: 512mb
Hard Drive: 8gig SSD
Screen: 1024x600
Battery: 3 Hours

Acer Aspire One
(The version I have on the left and the slightly more powerful version on the right) Image Techfresh.

The Aspire One comes with a cut down version of Linspire however I soon replaced this with Windows XP. This is not to say there is anything wrong with Linspire and I'm considering restoring it however I was interested to see how well XP ran.

As there is no CD drive I installed this via a USB key. XP does not run as fast as Linspire however is an acceptable speed. As many of the applications I use in XP such as Firefox and Filezilla are available under Linspire then I'm undecided as to which OS to use.

The keyboard is a good size allowing typing at a similar speed to a full size keyboard and with a 1024x600 display webpages display well.

The Aspire One includes three USB ports, a VGA socket, gigabit Lan, headphones, microphone, 5 in 1 memory card reader and an SD expansion slot.

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Mon, 10/06/2008 - 10:46pm — Brian McGuire (not verified)

bought one today the acer aspire one "comet £299" and its running xp and its brilliant a great wee gadget, im planning on using it whilst doing photography so i can see a live view and make alterations there and then... I would recommend it to anyone ;)

Wed, 10/29/2008 - 1:05pm — Chrisyboy

So close into thinking in getting one Chrisy Da Boy

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