[dundee] Acer Aspire One
lug at seany.us
lug at seany.us
Thu Jun 25 20:57:41 UTC 2009
Yeah, i guess the battery will suck compared to newer processors. Apparently it does "upto 3.5 hours". with the ancient battery in it just now it only gets about 1.x hours.
Incase anyone else is interested, heres the spec: http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/laptops/sony-vaio-pcg-r600hfpd/details/
Depending on your requirements you can now get Dell minis for ~£199 with 160gb HDD... not sure if that is cheap for a netbook or not but seems reasonable to me. With this said though, having used a Dell mini 10 for a while I do prefer the vaio (or any other kit) - mostly because of a really sucky trackpad on the dell minis... the bottom corners are clickable while still being usable for tracking.. argh!
Anyone tried the Samsung Nxxx series? How are the trackpads on these?
On a side note, I have a Dell Latitude about to go in the bin unless anyone wants to give it a new home. It works but the screen is broken, usable via VGA cable. Not wanting anything for it... go on, Fetch!
And oh.. one thing worth noting that the battery life figures that nearly all manufacturers publish are "best case", i.e. wifi off, bluetooth off, hdd off, brightness down/lcd off, idle CPU etc. Read an interesting article about AMD pushing for more regulations surrounding published battery life so we can get a real picture of what laptops are like. It does seem fishy that the latest samsung advertises "9 hours" battery life yet it is extremely light - possibly *the* lightest netbook. What are they doing, measuring how long it lasts while stuck at POST screen? Bah!
Regards,
Sean McRobbie
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From: "Nicholas Walker" <tel0seh at googlemail.com>
To: "Tayside Linux User Group" <dundee at lists.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, 25 June, 2009 21:01:44 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal
Subject: Re: [dundee] Acer Aspire One
Doesn't have the sort of battery life I need, and Im really looking for something quite small :D
thankyou for the offer though.
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Sean McRobbie < lug at seany.us > wrote:
er, forgot to mention it seems 12" viewable from a tape measure, so about half way between a netbook and your usual laptop.
Regards,
Sean McRobbie
----- Original Message -----
From: lug at seany.us
To: "Tayside Linux User Group" < dundee at lists.lug.org.uk >
Sent: Thursday, 25 June, 2009 16:20:12 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal
Subject: Re: [dundee] Acer Aspire One
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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