Acer Aspire One

cbcbcc29 July 2009

fantastic bit of kit,well recommended.have one myself.

Ron01 August 2009

Managed to pick one of these up in the States for $278. Absolutely great deal for a budget netbook that has all the power and functionality I need for when I'm travelling. For the saving in price I have now invested in an additional 6 cell battery for back-up.

Alasdair 06 August 2009

I am a young boy who found the acer aspire 1 one of the best netbooks made right now i would high recomended i found the best thing with was the quality of video and sound. And also fantastic battery life

Rozzles22 August 2009

Is the screen bright enough when not plugged into mains???

Harry Hickey06 September 2009

I bought this little machine almost a year ago now, and i've used it every day, it's really a fantastic little notebook. I upgraded it to 1.5gb ram, it has the 8gb standard HD but with a 8gb SD card it's now 16gb which is more than enough. I liked it so much that I bought my daughter a one off ebay and she loves it too. It's mainly used for going on the net, but the other packages are easy to use, word, & exel type software. Once you get used to not using a windows type interface, it's very easy to use. Well worth investing in one.

Holly 07 September 2009

I have one its right gd!!!!!!!

Grinnders22 September 2009

Great piece of kit. Does all teh basics you need it to.

Kevin Fox22 September 2009

I have one of these machines and have been very impressed with it. I now use this much more than my Packard Bell laptop of about the same age. The Acer is quick, easy to use and very portable, making it ideal if you need to work on the move. I would recommend buying a small mouse to use with it as the one under the keyboard is quite difficult to use and you often find that you mistakenly reduce and increase the zoom when web browsing and editing documents. I'm still not sure whhy that is but the mouse overcomes the problem. All round an excellent machine offering fantastic value for money. Go treat yourself to one!

Peter Gilligan14 October 2009

I hate this product, I have had this computer for a year now, and I have had nothing but problem with it, I got it for the size. It’s perfect for the size if you are out and about all the time, lightweight and looks very nice. The problems I have had with this are getting a bit annoying. I have gone thought 3 power chargers for the computer and nothing has been done about it. I have taken it back to comet, and they had changed it for a new one the first time. 3 – 4 months later happened again, laptop would not hold charge and when the power plug was unplugged the notebook would just go off, no life in it, and also I would be lucky if I even got it to come on in the first place. Me then thinking that it was the power pack, so I went to my local maplin and get a power pack rated at the same power rating and amps etc… And still nothing, so I now got a new PC, desktop one (zoostorm) and I love it, just a basic computer but far better than the notebook. What can be done now? I just left the notebook in the draw cant deal with comet.

Lisa Powers24 November 2009

I have had my acer aspire one for about 8 months now and managed to get a great bargain with it, it was brand new and i picked it up for £185.00!!! I love this notebook so much its amazing, i only had one problem with it which i thought the notebook had broken down, but it just turned out to be the operating system had failed, i sent it back to acer, and the service was impeccable, i had it back within 4 days, they paid to have it picked up and dropped off at my door and kept me updated about the progress of my repair by email. the capability of this system is amazing, i have the 160gb hdd and 512mb ram but to say the ram is quite small compared to other laptops, it is fast reliable, and impressive. great buy, i suggest if you want any type of notebook pick this one and buy it now! you wont regret it.

chris00202 December 2009

its a brill pc but i would like a macbook but i havent got the money so iam buying this for christmas!!!

DonaldB129 December 2009

I bought my wife one of these for her birthday at the begining of December and have to say I am very impressed. Great bit of kit - the downside - she lives on it.

Kevin 02 February 2010

Being a teenager the most important things are coursework, web chat and casual browsing. This allows me to do all this and more. The speedy processer and internet connection is ideal. This is just the most amazing and attarctive notebook you could want.

Duncan 'woody.cool' Woodward22 March 2011

I was an early adopter of the Acer Aspire One series purchasing a model that came with an 8GB SSD (Solid-State Drive) and 512MB RAM. It had Linpus Linux Lite as the preloaded operating system. I have to say, I was very disappointed with it. The included Linux distro was very restrictive and made life difficult for anything other than the most basic of tasks. It even has an interface with groups that are similar to the 'Program Manager' interface of Windows 3.1 which hasn't been around since 1993 LOL! Even after some 'modification' to the OS to remove the restrictions, it still seemed like it wasn't as compatible with other systems as I'd like and still seemed restrictive so I decided to get hold of the Windows XP drivers for this machine and go for the dreaded re-format and re-install with XP on it .... BIG MISTAKE!!!! Having only got an SSD inside it (and quite an early generation of SSD might I add) I found that read speeds were blisteringly fast but write speed was soooooooooo slow which made using Windows as the OS almost impossible (bearing in mind that Windows is constantly writing to itself, especially when using the swap file) and found the only way around this was to ditch the far superior file system of NTFS for the older FAT32 file system (which is what Windows 95 & 98 used back in the day) and then on top of all that try and hack the 'Enhanced Write Filter' (preventing long delays whilst writing to the SSD) from Windows XP Embedded into a Windows XP Pro install .... this is no problem for an IT techy (like myself) but not an easy task at all for most end-users. I also tried other Linux distros on this machine and found that Ubuntu ran well (although the versions that were about at the time I got my Acer Aspire One back in 2008 were a bit flaky with the Aspire's wireless adaptor) Have a good think about this before you make the purchase. Later models have improved, but avoid models with an SSD if you want a more familiar Windows interface.