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RE: Random Acer Aspire One option...

asininity — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:28:57 GMT

Double post.

Just canceled my order as having read more reviews it seems that you can't add new software to the default linux (Linpus), or even get up a terminal. Will hold out till more is known.

RE: Random Acer Aspire One option...

asininity — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:48:55 GMT

Not a big fan of taking laptops apart I tend to break them. If amazon have posted the wrong specs then I'll be sending it back. However being a cheap skate where can you get these 2gb sodimm kits from?

RE: Random Acer Aspire One option...

Uncle Bungle — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:00:27 GMT

Looking at the two links you provided on the op the only difference is the 512MB version consists of 1 x 512MB sodimm and the 1GB is 2 x 512MB with a price difference of £20

You would be better getting the 512MB version and either buying another 512MB sodimm (£10) to give you the 1GB spec and saving you £10 or ripping out the 512MB and getting a 2GB sodimm kit (2 x 1GB) (£25) assuming the board supports 1GB sodimms that is

To be honest I am suprised it has got two ddr2 slots considering the footprint of the unit maybe the Amazon specs are wrong

RE: Random Acer Aspire One option...

asininity — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:31:36 GMT

I'm going for the 120gb hd and 1gb ram I think. If I was going for the MSI wind I think I'd buy the advent re-badge.

Do you reckon anyone will buy 360 for the linux edition? Surely not.

RE: Random Acer Aspire One option...

Uncle Bungle — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:58:08 GMT

Here is an interesting video of someone playing a selection of games on the MSI Wind

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=2btzPY7xX-o

RE: Random Acer Aspire One option...

Him — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:26:48 GMT

Is there a way to connect these things to a TV? I'm looking at buying a sub laptop, but I'm fond of being able to watch video files and iplayer/ internet sreams through the TV (when I've nabbed my brother laptop).

P.S. I notice they are saying it has a 120GB hard drive rather than the 8GB flash memory that has been talked about. Also what happened to the £199 price tag?

RE: Random Acer Aspire One option...

compaq2 — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:20:57 GMT

It wouldnt be so bad if it actually did something (apart from slowing a pc down) ive never seen such a bad piece of software for a long time.

RE: Random Acer Aspire One option...

PlaneMan — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:09:03 GMT

[quote][b]ricedg (16/07/2008)[/b][hr]PC Spit have them in stock for £249and you can get a special offer on Norton 360 for £29.99!

How many unwarypeople are going to fall into that trap?

Idiots...[/quote]

Too many I fear.

RE: Random Acer Aspire One option...

ricedg — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:58:51 GMT

PC Spit have them in stock for £249 and you can get a special offer on Norton 360 for £29.99!

How many unwary people are going to fall into that trap?

Idiots...

RE: Random Acer Aspire One option...

PlaneMan — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:55:03 GMT

Link works fine for me Dave.

Looks like a nice machine, seems a little bit sluggish though compared to the Eee 701 (mine does have 1 GB of ram).

RE: Random Acer Aspire One option...

ricedg — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:25:26 GMT

Just been looking at some YouTube reviews.
What an excellent way to research something like this!
Don't know why I didn't think of it before.

Looks very very user friendly.
I can see my missus being able to use this straight away, she still struggles with Windows.
Webcam is amazing seeing as it's only 0.3mp.
You just wouldn't appreciate any of this from a paper review.
Best review IMO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf0A6b_wZZM&NR=1

EDIT link doesn't seem to work, it's called "Hands on with the Acer Aspire one"

RE: Random Acer Aspire One option...

asininity — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:24:05 GMT

[url=http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/208539/acer-aspire-one.html]Heres[/url] the review they give it the thumbs up apart from battery life. I think its either aspire one of the advent/wind rip off:D

RE: Random Acer Aspire One option...

ricedg — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 22:22:54 GMT

There's a review in this months PC Pro (not on the news stands yet, I have a subscription) but I've not read it yet.

Random Acer Aspire One option...

asininity — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:34:48 GMT

Just been looking at the Acer Aspire One as my new cheap laptop and am a bit confused about why this version [url=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Acer-Aspire-One-Netbook-Integrated/dp/tech-data/B001BZ4QUI/ref=de_a_smtd]HERE[/url], which as far as I can tell is exactly the same apart from 512 less RAM as this [url=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Acer-Aspire-One-A150-AbNetbook-Integrated/dp/tech-data/B001BZ4QV2/ref=de_a_smtd?ie=UTF8&qid=1215864980&sr=1-4]ONE[/url], is even being offered.

I know moneys is tight now a days but whats the point?