[Malvern] ACER Aspire one Netbook.

[Richard Forster]

I have one, I got mine (512MB w/ 120GB hard drive and linux) for 210UKP 
in late November from Play. I knew the SSD versions were down to 180 or 
so but I was surprised to see one seller in Google shopping listing it 
at 134 (but out of stock).

I think the _very_ first thing I typed on it when I first booted Linpus 
was alt-F2 (NOT ctrl) and xterm. It now runs Fedora with all the power 
saving tips I could find (plus Umbongo 8.04 in a VM though sometimes!). 
I also bought a larger battery and it has reported 10h remaining life 
and a drain of <8w in powertop, of course actually using the thing makes 
it use more power than sitting literally doing nothing so a realistic 
time is more like 7h.

Overall, nice machine (except for the ram upgrade process and the 
standard battery life).

cheers

Rick


Paul Potter wrote:
> Seems a very cheap price. So these are now cheaper than the Eee?
> 
> Paul
> 
> 2009/2/19 Keith Edmunds <kae at midnighthax.com>
> 
>> On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:06:42 +0000, geoff.bagley at btinternet.com said:
>>
>>> Does anyone have any info,  or even one of these £130  toys
>> I have one. You can get a command line interface with Ctrl-F2 (and then
>> 'xterm' or whatever you want).
>>
>> I found the Linpus installation a little restrictive, although I'm sure it
>> would suit many people. I put Debian on my: works fine and I really like
>> the netbook.
>>
>> Keith
>>
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