Acer Aspire One

I think most who complain that they want a full size keyboard in their netbook, shouldn't be looking at a netbook to begin with. The MSI Wind has a full size keyboard, and a 10 inch screen, but honestly its no smaller than my 13" HP presario from 2 years back. A netbook should be light, compact, and afordable.

I think $399 is the sweet spot for netbook pricing, cheap enough to warrant an impulse buy, but still vastly cheaper compared to a standard laptop. Look at the Eee 1000H, around here its priced at $679....which honestly, for a netbook without an optical drive, single core processor, and small storage, is over kill compared to a standard sized laptop.


Ryan

 

i've worked at best buy for ~1yr now and acers don't last. i'd highly recommend against it.

have you condsidered maybe the sony sz series? those are the bees knees

 

And I've used Acers for 2.5 years, and haven't failed me once. Honestly while they may have gotten a bad rap in the past, the One is no worse built than an EeePC, or my HP's

The SZ series are nice, but not exactly a UMPC, or a Netbook, which with 6 other notebooks, would really make me ask myself "WTF" :icon_bigg

 

Acer's laptop build quality is not fantastic, in that the plastic is not incredibly durable and the plastic will flex. With that said, I know a number of people who have Acer laptops that are years old and still work fine.

The Aspire One is a "big" item for Acer, so I doubt they would've skimped on the build quality (much).

 

Does anyone know of a a cheap, thin, nice looking affordable notebook? 12incher or so?

 

It's not out yet, but you might want to look into the Dell E Slim (http://laptopcom.blogspot.com/2008/06/dell-e-series-12-in-dell-e-slim-laptop.html). Upgrading the hard drive could be expensive...

That's what they make external hard drives for, though

 

No function keys either...which is odd..

Going back to the One for a sec.....was browsing around, and found out that the One has a semi-multitouch track pad...as in you can "pinch" to zoom in pics and what not, like you would on an iphone.....cool


Ryan

 

my bad i didn't really read what you were looking for. 6 notebooks? do you sweat gold or something?

i guess it's a ymmv thing as far as quality. i think i'm thinking of a diff series.

 

LOL I wish i sweated gold....now that would be SEXY!!!!!!!:lol:

Nah, all my laptops have been fairly in-expensive, though they are all still used in some form or fashion *looks at presario which now doubles as a media server*



Ryan

 

Whew, what a relief.

While i coincided before that i felt Acer's quality was up to snuff, there has apparently been some concern with the One's. Apparently some One's have died after coming out of hibernate or sleep. Some sort of glitch in the BIOS, which basically killed them.

Thankfully, all is not lost, and the One's can be fixed with a USB key (with a bios on it) and a "special" power sequence to activate the flasher.

http://macles.blogspot.com/2008/08/acer-aspire-one-bios-recovery.html

This is really good news for One owners, for sure!


Ryan

 

that new lenovo netbook looks tasty and affordable, does anyone know if the 12inch dell e-slim is slimmer than the regular e one? because it's thick as fuck.

 

I've scratched my order for an 1000H and I'm going to wait for a Ideapad S10. Those look just about right for what I need. Hopefully Ubuntu works great on them too.