Well, this morning after making my first post to this site, I made a trip over to Ft. Wayne,Ind. and went to Circuit City and purchased my Acer Aspire One. Sapphire Blue with 512 of RAM and Linux Lite. This thing is fast. Boots up in under 20 seconds. Everything works. I’m in love. Now I have 3 Acer Products. A Desktop, a laptop and now my new Netbook. After what I had read online about them not being out on display at Circuit City, I was surprised to walk into this store and there was one all set up and running so I got to play with it a little before I made my purchase.

I have done a lot of research on the Acer Aspire One Netbook and decided to go ahead and get one with Linux Lite. As seen in the video posted by Rogir on August 10th, it shows an Aspire with XP and one with Linux. The linux version boots up 3 times as fast as the XP Version. I need a netbook that comes alive fast and doesn’t need an Anti Virus Software package slowing it down. This One is it!!

Yeah, these are pretty sweet. I got to mess with them when they first came out. They have Linux on them, which is different. You really can’t add any software to them, at least I don’t think you can. It has a ton of features already built in though. Also uses Firefox as their primary browser which is great! I’d like to get one of these, just because of it’s size, but I’d probably go with the Asus, available here:

http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Asus-Eee-PC-901-Netbook-Pearl-White-EEEPC901W003X/sem/rpsm/oid/218241/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do

ooops forgot to post the video link

http://www.zive.cz/Clanky/Video-dvakrat-mininotebook-Aspire-One/sc-3-a-142696/default.aspx

where can i find the

white, 1GB RAM, HDD, 6-cell version

in the US market and for how much?

dont care about the OS. if it has Linux i will install my own XP, if it has XP would still probably install my own XP (bloat free). dont really need another XP license so Linux would be better if it saved a few bucks.

here is a video some of you might like to see, it shows the Acers extremely elusive 6-cell battery pack that everybody wants. it shows a blue Acer with the 3-cell & a white Acer with the 6-cell. i have no idea what language this is but he is commenting on the battery differences. maybe someone who speaks it could translate?

i am holding out buying 1 until the Acer comes with the 6-cell standard as i have no use for a 3-cell.

i’m not sure what Asus is thinking with the EEE, but damn those are like the ugly redheaded stepchildren of the subnote world. the Wind is nice looking but feels cheap.

I just ordered one at my local CC for pickup when I wake up :) I checked a week ago and it was not available then…

I could have ordered online from one of many retailers, but there would have been the shipping costs and wait. Not to mention the blue one is hard to find!

I think the Acer Aspire One is currently the best netbook value around, and the most hackable as well, just like the Asus Eee 701 was last year.

The current Asus Eee 901 is great, but like the HP 2133 mini-note, it’s not worth it (both from a cost and mod perspective).

Very interesting the config with 512megs of ram and 8gb SSD is $380 in the U.S and the 1gb ram, 120gb HDD is $400 here.

I think most will just pony up the extra $20, especially when I hear the SSD is slow in the Aspire One.

Too bad these still have 3 cell batteries but $400 for a netbook with those specs is still fantastic, especially when comparing again the EEEs!