Previews - Hands-on with the Acer Aspire One: an ASUS Eee PC-beater?

[HEXUS]

We take the Acer Aspire One for a test run and see if it has the credentials to offer the Eee PC a run for its money

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[staffsMike]

Deffinatly looks good comapred to the Eee

One little typo on the first page.

You said £349 for the linux and then $399 for the XP. Guessing it's $349

[nichomach]

Wonder if that automagic expansion of the internal SSD can happen under XP too?

[dangel]

Thanks - good preview - and interesting to hear that you feel it's built as well as the eee (which IMHO is a very solid laptop having dropped it rather badly). Here's the other thread on this from yesterday (merge?) http://forums.hexus.net/hexus-hardwa...01-killer.html

Colour? Sign me up for blue - looks great.

[Methanoid]

Poulsbo or old 945GC ??? Makes a huge diff to battery life!