Acer Aspire One

I am currently at Java Cafe playing around with my Acer Aspire One netbook.  I am really quite impressed with it.  In the past, I was not a fan of netbooks but after having Rich's Aspire One for nearly 2 weeks, my opinions have changed.  Rich needed to have Windows XP Lite and Ubuntu eee installed on his Aspire One.  Since I did not have time, I gave it to my student, Tommy, from AIS to do it.

Tommy returned to me this week.  I spent a couple days playing with Ubuntu eee on Rich's Aspire One.  Wow, I really love it.  The Ubuntu eee Developers did a great job on the desktop GUI.

Yesterday I purchased my own brown Acer Aspire One yesterday from Long Binh Computers.  It came with a licensed version of Windows XP Home, not the Lite version.  I was asked if I wanted a cracked version of Office 2007 but I declined.

When I got home, I tested Windows XP Home out.  Yeah, it is still slow.  I then downloaded unetbootin and created a Ubuntu eee LiveUSB.  I installed Ubuntu eee relatively easily and booted into Ubuntu.  Wow, I am still impressed with the nice Gnome desktop environment.

I managed to update the system but it took most of the night due the poor bandwidth here.

I will test it out at Barcamp Saigon tomorrow hopefully with some pictures of the event.  A review of both Barcamp Saigon and the Acer Aspire One will come within the week.

So far, I am impressed...........with the Aspire One.  My colleague plans to get one as well.