My AspireOne!

Got it a while back, have tinkered around, but nothing much. Kept the original OS, upgraded to 1.5gb. A few things I've noticed...

Pros:
Small
Looks nice
Lightweight
Really nice screen

Cons:
Gets fairly warm on left side
Closing lid = Can't get out of hibernate/sleep
Left shift button is annoying small
Touchpad gets annoying to use


This is just some small things, I have an EEE 1000h as well, playing with that too. So far, the A1 is quick zippy, but still has its lag spikes here and there, and this is with 1.5gb of RAM, but usually its unnoticable. The battery life on the 3 cell is about 2:30-2:50. Anyone else have one and tinkering around with it?

 

Looks pretty nice; it almost looks like it has had a custom paint job.

How is the build quality? Keyboard?

 

It's alright, its all plastic but pretty firm and doesn't have much flex. The keyboard is decent, there are some really small keys but not that bad. As mentioned, the left shift button is horrendously designed and small, so I'll hit \ alot.

 

looks nice.... but i already hate my laptop keyboard,, i can imagine what that little thing would be like.... it would make me even more insane!

 

still waiting on mine, they haven't shipped the 120GB/XP Home/6cell version yet in NA apparently.

 

oh does webcam every thing work under linux what distro does have on out of box?

 

Yeap, everything works out of the box. It runs on Linux Linpus, customized by Acer.

 

Well, coriolis, it is great to have you on board with your new lappie on the Acer forum. Good to have a Mod of longstanding reputation at NBR at least trying an Acer

Any hastles you might have will probably be sorted out by the forum pro's: BigO comes to mind along with Hoggie and the rest of this dedicated team.

Cheers and thanks,
Theo

 

HI All how the quailty of cam i heard it was pretty bad can post picture or video clip?

 

I got that same one also and very happy with it so far. The webcam is good quality for me can post a pic later

 

can I play maplestory on the XP version of this acer one intel atom processor? Cos I'm planning to buy one. Coriolis, is there a away that I can contact you? Like thru email. have some question to ask you.

 

just bought one as well

specs are:

- intel atom
- 1gb ram
- 120 gb hdd (5,400 rpm)
- 6 cell battery
- windows xp
- one year international warranty

got the blue colour, looks pretty nice.

 

I'd like to know if there is anyway to change the desktop of the linux one as i don't really like the one pre selected and go for normal style of desktop.

 

Where did you buy it and how much was the price? I don't think models with the 6 cell battery are sold in the U.S yet.

 

I notice under the desktop enviroment in pakcage manager it has kde and gnome - has anyone tried to install those on their aspire one and see if it works? I want to try but don't want to stuff it up.

 

Hi

Bought it from Wanchai Computer Centre in Hong Kong. Paid HK$3,800 (which is about US$486).

BTW the six cell battery just jut out quite a bit and it won't fit into the leather pouch that came with the computer.

 

When is the 6 cell version coming, with Linux? I see rumors, but methinks that the Windows version will get that, not the Linpus one. [Just out of my usual pessimism.] 2 hour run time seems kinda short for the purpose of this machine; and at $120 the 6 cell battery isn't cheap. Maybe the 3 cell batteries will get cheaper as time goes on?

 

I think Eta is around 21 From what I hear

 

Was play with my sister Aspire one today nice little machine was just curios any one try to make backup whole disk yet? I find kind crapy that you can,nt burn recovery disk like other acer laptop

like with external burner