Posted by Tony Mattingly
I recently bought one of these cute little laptops from Best Buy for about $300. My main use of it is for travel and school. The thing is tiny and light! It weighs like 2 lbs. 8 in. screen. It has an internal wireless internet card, 1 gig of RAM, 2 USB ports, ethernet port, LCD port and 2 SD card slots. It uses the Wondows XP operating system, which I like more than Vista for practicality and quickness. It only has an 8 gig flash drive for it’s internal memory, but you can add 2 SD cards which I believe they make up to 16 gig SD cards now.
As for the performance, I thought flash memory was fast for brining up programs and music etc… but it seems this computer takes a while to startup. About 2 mins for everything to load and ready for use. It comes with all the normal programs any laptop or desktop comes with, including the Microsoft Office programs. You can install other programs as well, like I installed Yahoo messenger on it. But programs that require a CD may be some trouble, because it does not come with a disk drive. I’m assuming you can install things like that via a USB cord from another computer. I’ve never tried it myself.
I like the style of it too. It has a full keyboard, LED lights for power, Wireless connection, memory use, num and caps lock and low battery. The touchpad is like and normal laptop except that the right and left mouse buttons are on either side of the touchpad. But it’s easy to get used to. The laptop is also very versitile. comes with a small webcam and mic. Which I though was very nifty for communication programs suh as Skype. You can also get a different model with an internal harddrive, but I’m not sure on the size(s). I’ve had the laptop for about a month or so now, and the only 2 cons I can find about it is the slow startup and if you set it on a bed or couch, it seems to overheat easily. The pros outweigh the cons I believe though. $300 for this latop is not bad at all. The small size makes it easy for travel and storage. It could easily fit in a purse or backpack.
So overall on a scale of 1 – 10, I would give the Acer Aspire One an 8 out of 10. It’s a very neat little machine that can keep you connected to the rest of your Tweeps or business clients, or however you would use any other computer.
