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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2005-08-02
I have an AAO (150Bw) and it's a really nice hackable laptop.
- I installed Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) on it, runs very well
- It runs Haiku! (no sound and wireless unfortunately)
- when you exchange the Atheros WiFi card with e.g. a Dell DW1390/1490 you can have a fully working hackintosh running on it as well.
there's an empty slot in the bottom of the AAO. That is reserved for a 3G PCI-E card. These are readily available (although expensive), and are known to work. Next year an AAO with 3G will be released as well.
The big minus of the AAO is that the BIOS only supports up to 2GB RAM, but the on-board 512MB RAM cannot be switched off. So this means when you add a 2GB SODIMM, the device won't boot. So, essentially you're stuck with a max of 1.5GB RAM (when you add a 1GB SODIMM to it)