Acer Aspire One

[Guest awarner (MVP)]

I was in Tesco theother day and noticed they had the Acer Aspire One 8GB model for only £198

Also seen at Tesco Direct

Anyone heard any good or bad news about this device?

[Guest Dr Who]

I have the 1Gb RAM, 120Gb HD XP version, in fact I am typing on it now, and it is an absolutely brilliant little thing. I wanted a netbook and thought the Advent 4211 too big for this type of device - I have a 12" laptop and the Advent is not much smaller or lighter.

The Acer is well built, the screen is fantastic and the keyboard is perfectly usable for touch typing. You even get used to the unusual half height touchpad with the buttons to either side. Battery life doesn't seem too diabolical with the 3-cell. It has to be said that the screen IS small - the wide aspect helps usability but the limited pixels top to bottom can mean a LOT of scrolling. However the touchpad has multitouch (as least under XP) which provides fast access to zoom control, which is handy. I would happily recommend this version to anyone in the market for one of these devices.

[Guest CanonKen]

I was in Tesco theother day and noticed they had the Acer Aspire One 8GB model for only £198

Also seen at Tesco Direct

Anyone heard any good or bad news about this device?

I have the Linux version.

Bought from Asda for £150

Advertised as 120gb but they have 160gb hard drive (well some do, mine has)

I wasn't too keen on the Linux distro - Linpus, so I put Ubuntu 8.10 on it, most things work straight away but I had to tweek the wireless settings a little to get it to work, there are reports that the card reader and hibernation don't work under Ubuntu but I don't need these and have yet to try it and see if it works or not.

Just bought a 1 gig memery stick for it, they only come with 512 built in, big job to instal it thought but I like a challenge :-)

[Guest Darkman1088]

I recently aquird one of these and im well impressed with the build quality speed and reliability it well worth upgrading the ram to 1.5 gig as this makes a big difrence to performace also if you have the A110 as i do there is a grate post on instaling a PATA Hdd ( ipod or similar ) hard disk simply do a google serch for tnk girl acers aspire one hacks

[Guest me075064]

yup really impressed by mine.

I have the 8gb Linux version and it does everything I need, email, Iplayer, Browsing, games even Spotify.

Fantastic. Wouldn't change it for anything.

[Guest BLADE2142]

Currently running with XP Pro

160GB HDD

1.5GB of RAM

Modded Wireless card with Intel draft N card

8GB SDHC Card

Windows 7 worked great, installed XP until I get a non beta license ;)

[Guest awarner (MVP)]

Starter Edition works well, but somtimes miss the Media Center part, especially for recorded TV which I would like to transfer to the netbook during quiet times at work.

After this topic was first created I actually bought the 160gb version for £125 at Tesco