Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 31st Oct 2008 08:46 UTC
Hardware, Embedded Systems Geeks.com, known for their cheap laptops, sent us the Acer Aspire One for a review. Thom wrote a review of the popular laptop recently, but here's my take on it. Update: After this review went up, and within two hours, I installed Ubuntu 8.10 (time is 4:10 AM here, couldn't sleep until I had Ubuntu in there). Using this very nice tutorial, I have everything up and running.
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Gonna get one
by Johann Chua on Fri 31st Oct 2008 09:19 UTC
Johann Chua
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2005-07-22

Acer's service is pretty good. Finally put it to the test when my Aspire 5570 wouldn't power up. Got one year extra of warranty coverage for free so I didn't have to pay anything to have the HDD replaced (SMART failure warning) and the mainboard and USB DC board fixed. While I was at the service center I noticed they had a promo for the Aspire One's extended warranty.

All of the Acers I have had Linpus pre-installed, but I never used it, installing Windows and Ubuntu instead.