Acer Aspire One

In my Opinion this notebook don't deserve this high rating. With this low akku time it isn't a portable netbook. This is an KO Point. But in this Test it looks like that the akku time isn't important for a notebook. When you look at the other negative points comparing it with the Eee PC 901 like the smaller HDD, the bigger case(This isn't a pro, it is a con)smaller Ram and smaller/uncomfortable Touchpad.I think the Testers have overestimate the bigger keyboard. The whole Keyboard is ~15%whider, but the important keys are only 7-8%whider that is ~0,8mm per Key. I dont think that this is an Point which is Big enough for this Test result. when you look at the Arrow keys they are very small and dificult to handle. For some Games is this horrible.When you say that the most bad diffrents of the Acer can be upgraded. Than is the Acer much more expensive than the Eee PC 901.

Does the Acer Aspire One really feature bluetooth? All the other tests up to now said that it didn't.

@ Met@lQuote:"the Arrow keys are very small and dificult to handle. For some Games is this horrible."Dude... Do you really want to play games on a netbook?And your Math is incorrect as well...The aspire one is 24 mm wider...In the qwerty-line there are 14 buttons, concerning the acer as well as the asus. That is almost 1.8 mm more per button. This may not sound like very much, but is a truely noticable difference at typing...I like the acer one alot... and I really think, 3rd-party-batteries will be available soon... and if not, there is a 6-cell battery available as well...The only con is, with the 6-cell-Battery, the acer one will be about 20% heavier...

I know that the whole keyboard is ~15% wider, bus asus has use a trick on their keyboard, the unimportand keys on the right side are smaller, so the important keys could be bigger. so The diffrence between the important keys are only 7-8% what is ~0,8mm per key. I have a Asus Ee PC 701, it has the same keyboard, and I can write perfect on it, so I can't understand the people who want a keyboard with 0,8mm bigger keys. The battery life and the other things are for me much more important, when I baught the acer to safe money, but I have to buy a bigger akuu for ~60? I dont had save money. and when the acer has a 6cell akku, it only had 5 Hours, but the asus has 8hours. Because of that I cant understand why mobilecomputermag say that it is better than the asus. The Acer is'nt bad, but it isn't the best.

With the Arrow keys, I think I would play some games on my netbook, I drive often with the train for more hours, and there are some games very good. for the old games which dont need a high performance system, the netbooks are perfect. I cant understand why acer has made them so small, there is enough place to make them bigger.

Personally for me it would be a hard line to draw. I have seen but not used the 701, but own the HP 2133.I like the thought of having an atom cpu as apposed to the via, but to be honest considering what I do, VPN, word docs, emails, RDP to servers to fix issues etc I dont need much more.The only thing I reckon should change as standard is the 3 cell battery to 6 cell.Other than this I rate the HP extremely highly and it runs XP perfectly. Not to mention the 120gb hdd (can be upgraded as its 2.5") I reckon I would stick with the 2133 for a while to come as apposed to moving to either asus or acer.

The arrow keys don't matter that much. This isn't for gaming, it's for the basics. It's cheaper than the 901, and that second SD slot makes up for any lacking it has in memory. You can get the Aspire one, and upgraded battery and a 16Gb sd card for just about the price of an EEE 901. And if you don't like the mousepad, get a usb mouse.

Is the SODIMM slot for additional RAM?I'm thinking of going for the 500Mb version with the 8Gb SSD from Play.com, but would like to upgrade the RAM.

You are able to install XP on the versions with linux on, just install XP to a usb drive and then set the system to boot off the usb, then you will need the drivers which you can find over at aspireoneforum.com

i have just purchased one of these note books and i love it just the job i am a mobile macanic and live in portugal and need something to surf the net and run my auto data program and i think every body has missed to build and finish of this product and the easy use of the linux systemsand i find the keybourd fine to use :D

Today I noticed that the recovery disc supplied with Acer One does NOT function in a way that recovery wil work !!!

Mine does - I've installed PClinuxOS, it works - mostly - and used recovery cd to put Linpus back. No probs at all. Will probably go back to PCL again when I've got time to sort out wifi driver - the only problem area!

I strongly prefer the single-height Enter key on the Aspire One to the big one on the MSI Wind. Keyboard layouts are a personal preference, so having different ones in the marketplace is a very good thing. Acer should be congratulated on having well-sized and well-placed shift keys, especially in comparison to the Wind.

mine worked, but strangely I had to do first right then left click on the menu buttons...

" when i baught the Acer to safe money " ????? Dude, i don't fink it matter wot keebord yoo yoos.

i am getting one of these computers for chrismas but i dont no if they do it in diffrent colours

Would you mind answering a question for me, does it have a disk drive. a.k.a - C.D Rom.

Yes Shannon, they do come in different colours Acer Aspire One (Blue and Black) / Asus Eee PC (White)

Hi Aimee. A disk drive normally refers to a floppy drive. A CD ROM is an optical drive. This, like other netbooks, has neither, though you can add an optical drive such as a external CD/DVD ROM or CD/DVD burner via USB.

Hi. I am thinking of buying one of these for storing cash flow charts for my business. Also to store photos to show customers. Do you think this will suite my needs. I am unsure as its mainly for browsing

The Aspire One comes in 5 colours white, black, blue, brown and pink.

The AA1 with Linpus,for my needs is a cracking tool.The only disappointment is the Wi-Fi, there are unresolved issues here at this time.Plenty on this at the Acer Guy & Acer Aspire One User Forum