Comments on: Review: Acer Aspire One (vs Eee PC 901 & 1000H)

By: chris

chris — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:02:36 +0000

I love the acer aspire one. I picked up one for $315. It amazed me for the priceow great it is. I have friends that own the eee pc mini laptop and they are all frustrated with the small keyboard and the slow speed. I’m so happy with this netbook and would recommend it to anybody.

By: travis

travis — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:56:25 +0000

wally mart now has the aspire one at $300 and i finally convinced the wife to let me buy one.

i’ve watched longingly as the OLPC was developed, but it never really made it to market.

then the EEE was developed and brought to market, but you can’t really find it over the counter anywhere, and the screen resolution is ridiculously small (too narrow for most web pages, too short to even show the START menu without being cramped!!), as is the keyboard, though the EXPECTED price kept me hanging on, it still hasn’t reached down to it’s $200 mark.

then out of nowhere, walmart carries, IN STOCK, a $350 netbook, with a bigger screen, better keyboard, HUGE hdd (comparatively). i was caught off guard, somehow it’d skipped my radar completely, and it was just sitting there with a price tag!!

there’s just no comparison for me. especially now that the price is only $300, hell i paid about that for the WARRANTY on my last laptop! and what’s more, the aspire one is AVAILABLE. just walk in to the store, and buy it. i still can’t say the same thing for the EEE, the MSI wind, the gBook, Dell mini9, nor the HP netbook.

this little laptop is going to be POPULAR, because it’s affordable, it works well, and it’s ACCESIBLE, in a very common store. the other netbooks may have better options, but the average person wants to walk in to a store and pick something to take home, rather than look at pictures on the net and wait for a week for it to post.

nuff said.

By: rob

rob — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:52:38 +0000

ur all nuts! i shell out 450 bucks and built myself a tablet! 12 inch touch screen wifi bluetooth 80 gig drive plus extended 2 gig ram plus x os! plus 4 uswbs a card reader.

By: How Acer Became The Top Netbook Maker | The ULPC Scoop

How Acer Became The Top Netbook Maker | The ULPC Scoop — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:18:07 +0000

[...] Asus introduced the Eee PC 901-series as their first Intel Atom-based netbook. Like the Aspire One, the Eee PC 901-series features a 9-inch screen. However, the case is significantly smaller than the Aspire One. As a result, the keyboard is tiny and most adults have difficulty using it. Most buyers passed on the 901-series, opting for netbooks with bigger keyboards. [...]

By: tim

tim — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 23:57:00 +0000

The eee pc is FAR superior in many ways. 1) Aspire’s finish after 10 minutes out of the box looks like toddlers used it with all the smudges. 2) the Sspire is flimsy, like a cheap Chinese toy. 3) The touchpad is too close to the button and you find your thumb touching the pad AND the button simultaneously. 4) also the button on the left is cramping my hand because my thumb is un-naturally forced too far forward to find the click button like a constant “thumbs up” to operate the pad.

All the Aspire has going for it is the nice keyboard and the color choices.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:32:38 +0000

Just read your review and I agree. I’m an early netbook adapter and had an Asus 701 4G when they first started coming out last year. As much as I loved having it my two main complaints was the 7″ screen and small keyboard. In my opinion, Acer’s Aspire ONE (AA1) is the most value-oriented netbook and does not get its due credit.

I even have Lenovo’s S10 and as attractive as the S10 is (10.2″ screen and easy access for upgradability) I’m staying with my AA1 for the reasons mentioned in your review (surprisingly the keyboard feels better on the AA1 than on the S10! And what’s up with the right shift key?!), the overall form factor, weight, screen resolution (still 1024 x 600 on both machines), and still no Bluetooth on the S10 (although available outside the US).

FYI: I choose the S10 over MSI’S Wind ’cause cosmetically the S10 looked slimmer. Afterward I read the Wind’s keyboard feels better than the S10. HP’s new 1000 netbook looks interesting (8.9″ form factor with a 10.2″ screen!). And I read Acer will be releasing a 10.2″ version of the AA1 in 2009. But for now I’m happy with my AA1 =-).

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:59:40 +0000

iv got an eeePC 901 and my bro has an aspire one i can see the attraction for the aspire but the longer battery life on my eee and the solid state drives just do it for me. iv done a fair bit of modding and you can put in a 160gb hdd as well as countless other mods i dont know about modding the aspire i haven’t seen any mods on it yet. i think that the eee is for me but for the less tech orientated the aspire is probably for them. I carry my eee with me every where and i get out at night if my eee wasn’t a SSD then it would have broken by now iv even slamed my eee in to a acer notebook one time and now its HDD sounds like its on its lats legs and no damage to my eee.

By: Matt Rix

Matt Rix — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:50:08 +0000

Chris, I’ve got a 6-cell Aspire One with a 160gb HD that lasts for 6+ hours, and I guarantee that it cost a lot less than your EEE :)

By: Christopher Price

Christopher Price — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:48:18 +0000

Chris, you do realize there are 6-cell Aspire Ones, right? ASUS making that standard on all Eee 1000’s was nice, but it doesn’t make up for the price disparity.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:05:49 +0000

Hardly seems like an impartial review, you obviously haven’t tried Eee 1000H…

Got my Eee 1000H last week, came with XP and 160GB harddisk. Absolutely love it! Installed Ubuntu Eee as second OS, almost flawless. With Bluetooth and multi-touch trackpad. Nothing wrong with the keyboard either… ok during the 1st 2 mins I was trying to get used to the right shift key, but no big deal

Oh wait… did I mention that Eee 1000H batteries lasted more than 6 hours with music player at almost max volume, internet explorer with 6-8 tabs, msn and open office word processor running? trying beating that with Aspire One