[dundee] Acer Aspire One

[lug at seany.us]

Hi,

Not quite a netbook but almost there... I have a fairly old Sony Vaio in my hands that I need to get rid of because I need the space.

- 1ghz P3 mobile
- 256mb RAM
- 6gb, 40gb or no hdd - you choose!
- Docking station for DVD/CD-RW + Floppy (best discarded and using USB drives or wifi as the DVD drive is pretty rubbish)
- Tested with Ubuntu & Debian Lenny. Comes with XP pro sticker on bottom.

All it needs is a new power brick ~£13 and it should be good to go. Haven't tested the battery recently but feel free to see and try the device to find out if its suitable for you. Add £35 for a brand new battery from eBay if you wish:

"SONY VAIO 19.5V 4.1A PCGA-AC19V3 AC ADAPTOR CHARGER UK" on eBay - £12.35
"2600mAh Battery for SONY PCGA-BP2R PCG-R505 PCGA-BPZ52" on eBay - £35

Only problems with it I'd say are it isn't in the best condition cosmetics wise and the wifi card is only 802.11b (11mbps). I sucessfully upgraded the 2nd of these laptops (I have two) to a dual band a/b/g intel card.

Let me know what you think.

Regards,
Sean McRobbie

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicholas Walker" <tel0seh at googlemail.com>
To: "Tayside Linux User Group" <dundee at lists.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, 25 June, 2009 15:56:48 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal
Subject: Re: [dundee] Acer Aspire One


Yeah, but even that is an improvement on my laptop. Can you get the Aspire one *with* the extended battery or do you ahve to buy it as a further accessory? 


On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Gary Short < gary at garyshort.org > wrote: 






You won’t get 7 hours out of the aspireOne without the extended life battery. You only get around 2.5 with the standard one. 




From: dundee-bounces at lists.lug.org.uk [mailto: dundee-bounces at lists.lug.org.uk ] On Behalf Of Nicholas Walker 
Sent: 24 June 2009 01:19 
To: dundee at lists.lug.org.uk 
Subject: [dundee] Acer Aspire One 






I'm looking to get a hold of an Acer Aspire One either second hand or very cheap (money is rough at the moment) 

I'm more leaning towards the HDD versions rather than the SSD versions as I need the space without faffing around with removable storage. 

The main reasons I want this over somethign like a EEE are: 
- 7 hour battery life with a larger battery than the triple E's, 
- As far as I can see, no EEE has a HDD over an SSD 
- not much price difference between this and a EEE while still having compatability on par with the EEE. 


however if anyone can suggest a better webbook for me I'd be interested, main cirteria being a large amount of storage coupled with long battery life. Im not that fussed about "huge" amounts of ram and such. 


any suggestions of other webbooks or places I can get my mitts on a second hand one of these? 

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