On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:47:26 Aidan Gauland wrote: > Steve Holdoway wrote: > > I've got an older Acer One, with just an 8GB SSD+SD. It works fine > > ( currently running the pre-release Ubuntu 10.10 happily ), although the > > SSD has been replaced once, and write performance does seem rather slow. > > Does anyone else have any experiences with or opinions of the Acer Aspire > One? I am now considering that one (as well as the Eee), because of the > keyboard and it seems to be more Debian-friendly; that is I don't have to > use a netbook-specific distro to alleviate hardware and driver woes. > > I really don't know why we need specific drivers for something as simple as > network chipsets. Weren't the OSI and TCP/IP layer models supposed to > avoid this problem? Or do these problems exist in only one layer? Or is > it just a delusion? > > Thanks, > Aidan
I have an Acer Aspire One (original model ZG5). It's awesome. I wiped XP and installed Mepis 8.0. I had to compile the wireless drivers as the stock ath5k was borked (wired ethernet is ok). I have read that the built-in SD card readers behave funny, but I have never used them. Everything else seems to work out of the box. The keyboard was the best of the netbooks I checked in NZ. The size and weight is perfect. Battery life is about 2 or 2.5 hrs. I don't know if this model is still available, but I am very happy with mine. Best wishes, Andrew
