Acer's Aspire One gets official
By Ryan Block 
posted Jun 3rd 2008 8:28PM
posted Jun 3rd 2008 8:28PM
- 8.9-inch 1024 x 600 LED-backlit display
- 1.6GHz Atom N270
- 512MB DDR2 SDRAM (expandable)
- 1.3 megapixel camera, SDHC and multi-format media readers
- 802.11b/g, Ethernet, three USB 2.0, VGA, and 3.5mm audio out
- One free mini PCI slot for WWAN
- 80GB hard drive (with XP) or 8GB solid state (with Linux)
- 2.5 or 5 hours on 3 or 6-cell batteries in XP model, 3 or 7 hours on Linux
- 1kg (2.2 pounds)
[Thanks, Garry, via El Reg]
UK£ 299 = 587.1762 U.S. dollars
So... currency conversion huh?
£199 (~$400 US) for the Linux model, and £299 (~$400 US) for XP.
spot the error..
Its US$400 for both models?
ughhhh what is with these annoying tiny laptops? Will they ever end?
No cause small is the new big.
~yawns~
Glad to see I'm not the only only one tired of these tiny laptops.
Small may be the new big (whatever that means), but it feels like every other post on Engadget is about these little devices.
Your master steve jobs seem to have a massive erection over REALLY slim (and really useless) laptops.
That news didnt end until a lot of time passed for all that to blow over. I really hope you were complaining then too.
I completely agree. I would like to put a bullet in the screen of every net book that wouldn't... uh.. i just hate these things.
Give the MBA some credit alright. It cuts cake way better than any of these thick "netbooks"
sure, my macbook can slice a cake
sure, my macbook can fit into a manila envelope
but can it fit inside a fanny pack, i dunt think so
if £199 = 400$
and £299 = 400$
than certainly communism will work
there is a thing called Price Point. google it.
the basic idea is product will be sold more when you set it at at whole numbers like; 550, 600, 650.
@jd
they purposely leave it at 199 because you only pay 1 hundred and 99 rather 2!!! hundred and zero.
Did there really need to be five comments to point out one error?
Error?
Obviously you have a life
leave the rest of us alone, we need all the wins we can get
Error?
Error?
"I AM ERROR"
stop errorism!
Lets be honest here. No one should be buying any of these "netbooks" until the Dell Mini Inspiron has been priced. Honestly. If you do, you'll be sorry. I bet you that Dell will just price it at $300 and steal all of the glory and there goes the competition.
Yeah, that sounds like them.
MSi Wind is almost identical to this..but i think i still like the Wind for some reason more.
could it be the fact that you can actually type more than 10wpm on the wind cos of the close-to-full-sized keyboard? these 7/9 inchers' keyboards are on the wrong side of teeeeeeeeeeeny. You'd be better off with a handheld frankly. once i tried the eee 900's keyboard i totally gave up the idea of getting one. love surfin' and all, but would still like to reserve the right to crank out the occasional piece of work on it ya see..
the acer (to stay a bit closer to topic) sure is a bit of a looker though..
hmmm..just read a mini-review of the acer, says keyboard's on a par with the wind. my sincerest apologies to acer for the prejudice..
sorry for the long link..includes vid's
http://www.mobilecomputermag.co.uk/20080603552/hands-on-with-the-acer-aspire-one.html
If you do something to make it not work, is it called "Breaking Wind?"
That depends on whether dell wants to lose money or not.
Anyway I like the blue, is the Dell coming in blue?
If not the choice is clear.
Why not? So far the Dell is 3rd or 4th place on my list.
As far as this Acer goes... everything looks good, but not better than the Wind, until the "open mini PCI slot." Nice!
So looks like it's a choice between a 10" screen and the possibility of easy WWLAN upgrades. I'm still leaning wind, because I really want a 10"+ screen, but this acer would be my pick of choice for a Non-only notebook so far.
You know, I might find one of these things useful if I could purchase a low-cost dock (with an optical drive) that I could connect it to. Adding an external DVD drive and a USB cable seems to be kind of a pain.
Of course, they would probably price the dock at $200. At that point, I might as well just buy a full-size notebook.
Call me shallow, but I might buy this thing over the other choices just because of the looks. Beautiful.
Especially the blue...
Somebody please wake me up when one of these comes with a convertible touch display that is sunlight readable. Otherwise, these are too much of the same tired crap.
How much do you want to spend?
Keep looking at the Gigabyte...
Pure awesomeness....until they announce a launch sticker that is...
yeah , me too waiting for gigabyte one or even the small amd one.
Yeah, I've got the feeling you're looking at the wrong segment. Lots of "industrial" tablets out there for you, but that sunlight-readable touchscreen is going to compromise in a lot of ways (not least of which is price).
Still no bluetooth?
What's the Linux build, anyway?
Linpus linux lite. Straight from the website. I don't know a whole lot about linux, does anyone have experience with this one?
From what I've read (I have not tried Linpus personally) this isn't good news. These laptop developers should be going with major distributions. I'd like to see them go with Ubuntu (one reason to wait for Dell, since I'm betting they'll release an Ubuntu variant). The HP choice of SUSE wasn't so bad. I've heard good things about the PCLOS that's configured for the eeepc.
It shouldn't be too hard to standardize an Ubuntu distribution for these laptops (looks like they're working officially on that now). It would be nice to see enough standardization that people could get used to a certain flavor of Linux and move from there. The good news is that they're all free, so you should be able to dump one and put another on fairly easily (though it's way easier with a usb dvd/cd rom drive)
Whoa now
£199 = 400$
and £299 = 600$
does this mean communism only works on paper?
OK, you KNOW the dollar sign goes at the beginning of the price because you did it correctly with the pound sign. You can't plead ignorance. So what's with the dollar-sign-at-the-end affectation? It's like wearing a popped collar that you think is somehow cool, but actually makes you look like a dork.
I've decided to just save up 500$ or so and wait to see what the "Which ultra-portable netbook would you get?" which covers this, the MSI Wind, the Eee PC and whatever others.
I had an Acer before and i didnt liked it. i mean the gfx card broken without even abusing it and 3 key's just jumped off the keyboard lol. i hope this ones get alot of improvements
~yawns~
Am I the only one who has entirely lost interest in tiny laptop news? It feels like every other post on Engadget is about another one of these boring things.
Great but i am mad , why can't they release them in the usa first, we always wait, and wait forever and ever to get anything
thats because you live far away from the computer factory and the boat is really slow.
Yeah but we get a lot of videogames way sooner.
Worth it.