Comments on: Just in: Acer Aspire One

By: Timothy Matara

Timothy Matara — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:58:02 +0000

I love the design, I hope it runs better with Linux, I need a portable laptop for my technical support in the savannah. Hope it will work with me!

By: Internetagentur München

Internetagentur München — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:23:38 +0000

It is even possible to change the SSD into a real hard disk! Then you can use it like a real notebook and not only for websurfing.

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:02:53 +0000

You can buy a 6 cell battery to go with it, but at the moment it will set you back 80 quid

By: Richard Lloyd

Richard Lloyd — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:49:57 +0000

Actually, I’m hoping you can get a US keyboard layout in the UK because I prefer that layout myself Also, the article’s whinge about the Enter key is ridiculous – if anything the key with a size issue is surely the Backspace key, which isn’t much wider than a normal key (though the UK layout may rectify this of course).

As many reviews on the Net have pointed out, the standard battery life of barely 2 hours is worse than most full-size laptops out there and seems to be the Achilles heel of this otherwise interesting sub-laptop. I don’t suppose we can buy them with a larger battery but without having to add 100 pounds to include other features we might not want?

By: Jeff Dickey

Jeff Dickey — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 06:12:07 +0000

David – would be fascinating to get those benchmarks ported over to Linux (and Mac, now). To paraphrase Mike, above, a “same Processor, same graphics card, same chipset, same system, different OS” benchmark – on the mini-notebooks like this Acer and the Asus Eee – as well as, dare we hope, the MacBook Pro and iMac (which runs XP quite nicely, thank you), would be illuminating.

By: David Bayon

David Bayon — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:01:07 +0000

or Linux* (oops)

By: David Bayon

David Bayon — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:00:28 +0000

Mike – unfortunately our benchmarks only run under Windows, so we have to install it to get any meaningful performance results. Rest assured we will be thoroughly testing it in Lunux too.

By: Duncan Smart

Duncan Smart — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:36:09 +0000

Looks great – I hope they put a proper UK keyboard on it – the one there looks like a US layout.

By: Mike Silva

Mike Silva — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:09:40 +0000

So you are installing XP to test benchmarks?!? (same Processor, same graphics card, same chipset, same OS? what are you looking for?)

The value of hardware/software in Linux version is 10 times beter than the XP version.

I just hope Linux version will outsell the XP version at 10 to 1.