News - 10in Acer Aspire One on course for early 2009 arrival

[HEXUS]

Acer will expand on its popular Aspire One netbook by launching a long-awaited 10in model as soon as February 2009.

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[this_is_gav]

If you used the SSD version, then you didn't use it for long if "the only real downside being the system's overly-small and cramped design"... or the press version had a faster SSD or course.....

It's horrifically slow. Even with the lightweight Linux distribution included. In XP it borders on unusable unless you hack at the OS with Nlite and disable things like recording file access, something I've never done on any system.

[greenalien]

Let's hope they include the facility to insert a sim card for internet data access - USB dongles are hardly elegant, and what's the use of a netbook that has mobile access tacked on as an afterthought...