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The world's second-largest laptop manufacturer enters the same market as Asus's Eee, with its own Linux-based subnotebook
Subnotebook, SSD, Atom, Acer, Intel
The Acer Aspire One will be on UK shelves on 10 July, said Acer, although the manufacturer is also working to push the device out through mobile-phone operators as well as standard retail channels.
The subnotebook will not be Acer's only Linux push, though — according to Morbello, the company will be putting open-source operating systems on its higher-end laptops as well.
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Yes, on the brink.
With up to 7 hours use (with the upgraded battery) this is the first serious contender for my credit card.
Ah, it's the number 3 computer manufacturer but the number 2 laptop manufacturer, a position it reached in the first quarter of this year. At least, that's what they told us hacks in a very long presentation about the company this morning, when we really just wanted to see the darn machine...
Notwithstanding that the Aspire One is small, light, convenient and attractive, I do hope that the USB ports are sturdy enough to last the life of the computer; and that they have not been sacrificed in the efforts to keep weight down.
I say this because, apart possibly from processor fans and hard drives, this is the most common hardware defect that I meet in laptops from normally considerate users.
In my own case I have two laptops (one Dell, one HP), otherwise useful and sufficent for purpose, whose USB ports have become too slack to be effective. Hence I have to use a cardbus USB device to compensate, but these do not have enough power for an external 2.5 hard drive.
This is good for 2 reasons:
1 - Computers are getting cheaper at the time when the price of everything else is going up.
2 - Another major computer maker pushing Linux, perhaps this will force Microsoft to cut their prices on future operating systems!
If you use Linux... Who Cares , what Microsoft charges, or Apple, for that matter.
Acer Aspire 5315-2153, $348 Walmart Special,Mandriva Linux 2008.1 Spring Edition. The fist Linux distro where everything worked, on this laptop, the first time !
Not only force M$ to cut prices , but maybe, just maybe, it will force them to cut the bloat, improve security, and give the consumer what they want instead of telling them what they want.
Nice to know but pointless without a link to the spec.
Brian
must be good for basic usage..more like the Eee notebooks?
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