Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 31st Oct 2008 08:46 UTC
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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A lot of folks seem to think the Acer netbooks are the pick of the bunch. And if I were to get one, I'd probably get an Acer too. But I'm not really tempted. At the moment, the whole netbook thang strikes me as too much a product (the Atom chipset) in search of a market. Spending some more (but a lot less than the cost of an Apple laptop) will get me a fully loaded but still eminently portable gizmo like the Samsung Q210 series of 12-inchers. This will do far, far more and probably last a lot longer too. And there are plenty of less expensive but well specified and still portable laptops from Acer themselves as well as from downmarket "value" brands.
Netbooks have flagged up one thing, though. If the makers can get these netbooks in at their current prices, then how come so many mobile smartphones are astronomically expensive by comparison? Where I live, some of the more recent Windows 6-7 smartphones cost 50-100 per cent more than a netbook. Maybe an unintended consequence of the netbook phenomenon is that mobile makers will be forced to come back down to earth.
Edited 2008-10-31 11:51 UTC