The ACER Aspire One comes with a 1.6ghz Intel Atom processor and pre-loaded with 1GB of RAM. This is a very powerful computer. The screen and keyboard are very small and I would have given the machine 5 stars, except the major design flaw is the mouse buttons. The touch pad has the most buttons on each SIDE of the touchpad as opposed to below the touch pad like most notebooks. This is invariably frustrating and causes me errors when typing.
I had access to a free copy of Server 2003 (which can be configured to be a very fast workstation OS) and so I ditched XP Home. The factory pre-load of XP as always is over-bloated with useless software and the settings are not optimized. Thus, I installed Server 2003 32-bit over the old XP Home OS. There is a website out there on how to configure Server 2003 as a workstation or desktop OS.
Getting drivers for Server 2003 was a snap. The only "difficult" one was the graphics driver, but simply using the XP driver supplied by Intel and setting its installer to run in "XP SP2" compatibility mode solved any problems. The Atheros WLAN driver can be found in a google search and there is one for Server 2003. You can figure out which WLAN card you have by looking at the sticker on the bottom of the machine. With Server 2003 installed and configured as a workstation OS, this laptop is AMAZINGLY fast and snappy notebook.
RAM upgrades: The word on the net is that upgrading RAM on this machine is somewhat of a job. You have to remove the keyboard and other things (caveat emptor: warranty gets voided). RAM max on this machine is 1.5GB (you can swap a 1GB stick for the 512MB stick...the 'native' ram is that which is soldered to the mobo and cannot be replaced (at least in any easy sense)).
The ASPIRE ONE will not accept a 2GB stick unfortunately. But for a machine this size and most people's computing tasks the machine is more than sufficient.
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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