I have fiollowed the Ultra Mobile PC, Netbook and One Laptop Per Child (OLPC-XO) tech space for years now. I even purchased an OLPC - XO last year and had some fun with it - but the Acer Aspire One is a real computer. I've had mine for a week now and I am extremely pleased with the purchase. I have loaded it with all my applications and have not had any issues - Office 2007, Safari browser, Juice podcast RSS, even DragonSoft Naturally Speaking (what I consider a computationally intensive app - full disclosure: I had to use a USB sound card that came with my headset to get a clean voice-to-text sound quality - the sound card built-in was choppy). Even Skype video calls and Facebook Video mail worked GREAT with the built-in camera and mic. As far as animation graphics, Crayon Physics (a really cool game) runs fine. I even use it with my company's Citrix and LiveMeeting Java-based service clients - with NO Issues. Performance seems to be about a P4 at a fraction of the power consumption.
It's hard to believe it only costs $319! I'm seriously considering buy a second one for the family - 'cause it's hard to share. The three USB ports and two card readers are great - Acer added the external video port, so you can plug a full size monitor, keyboard and mouse in and use it as a desktop. I do highly recommend the 6 cell battery - I get 3 to 4 hours depending on what I'm doing.
Two parting comments -
1. I have always had small WinCE type clamshell or hand held PocketPC, but they always had limits that I had to accept - with the Aspire - there are no limits - it's a fully functioning PC the size of a trade-paperback book and weighing in at 2 pounds. There is no special UI, no special software.
2. It's true purpose, and strength, is to browse the web, use cloud based apps, like Google Docs, Calendar and Mail and Skype anywhere, anytime - the small size is easy on the go. I am a corp. road-warrior type and I always dreaded carrying two laptops - one for work and one for personal use (company policy reasons force this) - the Aspire let's me carry my personal laptop with very little added weight and bulk. It has allowed me to go paperless.Get more detail about Acer Aspire One AOA150-1049 8.9-Inch Netbook (1.6 GHz Intel Atom N270 Processor, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB Hard Drive, XP Home, 6 Cell Battery) Black.
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