Acer Aspire One hacked into a UMPC for reasons unknown

We know that there are those of you who have been asking -- quite insistently -- "What does it take to get an Acer Aspire One UMPC around here?" Apparently, it doesn't take much: pop out the screen, replace it with an 8.9-inch touchscreen kit, flip the lid 'round so the display sits on top, toss out the keyboard and screw it all back together again. The specimen pictured above is running Ubuntu on top of the Aspire's 1.6GHz Atom CPU with 1.5GB RAM and an 8GB SSD (and quite happily, we might add). Hit that read link for details and plenty of pictures.

[Via SlashGear]

[Preda @ Oct 3rd 2008 9:15AM]

hehe.

Thats an awesome distro. I have it on my eee 701

http://www.ubuntu-eee.com/

Highly recommend it.

[Patriks7 @ Oct 3rd 2008 9:19AM]

I even had a dream about this!

[smeep2k4 @ Oct 3rd 2008 9:23AM]

I actually wanted to do this, and now someone's beaten me to the punch. It's one way to fix the rather anemic touch pad one the A1.

Time to go purchase another Aspire One to hack to bits.

[Dani @ Oct 3rd 2008 9:26AM]

Haha, that guy speaks "bastard spanish", the kind of language used by some retards in this country.

I guess the translator won't help you much.

[strider_mt2k @ Oct 3rd 2008 9:45AM]

You are confusing "unknown" with "not understood".

The reason is clear: Modifying stuff rocks.

Modifying stuff successfully doubly so. ;)

[ctitanic @ Oct 3rd 2008 9:53AM]

I have "translated" the "bastard spanish" in the first post. Google should work better now.

[ctitanic @ Oct 3rd 2008 9:57AM]

BTW, the reason is known. There is a lot of people that like tablets but there are almost none with that size which is really a little bit bigger than an UMPC (

[Frankie @ Oct 3rd 2008 10:00AM]

I love engadget!!! You guys absolutely rock, exposing many users to various forms of Geekdom. I mean, as an aspiring mobile device manufacturer trying to get a revolutionary product off the ground, an article like this is so inspiring. Passion will overcome everything, every time. Hat's off to all of those who are unhappy with what the market has to offer, and creates their own iterations!!

[Jim Halpert DM @ Oct 3rd 2008 10:21AM]

THE KILLERS!

[CraigJ @ Oct 3rd 2008 10:43AM]

At least Mr. Blurrycam is still gainfully employed...

[bolezhinkov @ Oct 3rd 2008 11:37AM]

he's even getting full dental starting next month.

[Chin-Poh @ Oct 3rd 2008 11:52AM]

That is pretty freaking badass! Kudos to that very talented modder. : )

[BigD145 @ Oct 3rd 2008 12:16PM]

Get a tripod for your camera, bub.