Hi, I need some help here. ATM I have a toshibia laptop but it's just too big to keep carrying it around with me to all my classes. I was walking around best buy the other day and happen to see a small notebook called Acer - Aspire One Netbook with Intel® Atom™ Processor N270. My question is this a good notebook? I like the size of it which caught my eyes plus the battery life with the 6 cell battery can go up to 5 - 6 hours. Main use of the laptop will be for school lectures and asking surfing the web. There will be no game playing on this laptop. Here is the specs: Warranty Terms - Parts 1 year limited Warranty Terms - Labor 1 year limited Product Height 1.4" Product Width 9.8" Product Weight 2.4 lbs. Product Depth 6.7" Color Category White Processor Brand Intel® Processor Intel® Atom™ Processor Speed 1.6GHz Display Type CrystalBrite TFT-LCD widescreen with 1024 x 600 resolution Screen Size 8.9" System Bus 533MHz Cache Memory 512KB on die Level 2 System Memory (RAM) 1GB Type of Memory (RAM) DDR2 Hard Drive Type Serial ATA (5400 rpm) Hard Drive Size 160GB Optical Drive Not included Direct-Disc Labeling No Digital Media Reader or Slots Yes, digital media card reader Graphics Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 950 Personal Video Recorder (PVR) No TV Tuner No MPEG Yes Built-in Webcam Yes Modem None Networking Built-in Ethernet LAN (RJ-45 connector) Wireless Networking Wireless-B+G Bluetooth-Enabled No S-Video Outputs None Audio High-definition Speakers Built-in PCMCIA Slots None USB 2.0 Ports 3 IEEE 1394 FireWire Ports None Parallel Ports None Serial Ports None Game Ports None Laptop Weight Ultraportable (5.5 lbs. or less) Battery Type 3-cell lithium-ion Pointing Device Touchpad Operating System Windows XP Home SP3 Included Software Acer Launch Manager, Adobe Reader and more ENERGY STAR Qualified No
The "e" PCs are pretty cool. The one limitation is XP Home. You typically cannot log in to your campus domain account with that OS, it typically requires XP Pro.
I'd get one with lesser memory and then just upgrade it. I think crucial.com has kits for 2gb of memory which should be quick on them.
If you're gonna upgrade the RAM I believe the HP should come out to be a little bit cheaper, if not go with Dell. A memory upgrade for this is like $25 bucks plus shipping so it's definitely worth it.
Yeah but it makes it less stressful for other components, and you might even be able to run Vista on it if you desired.
I honestly cannot go on any further and say order a Dell. Their company is falling through the cracks so bad it is unbelievable.