I spontaneously purchased this during my visit to North Carolina over this past Easter weekend because I had no computer to play with. Needless to say, I did not do any research prior to purchasing this and it was not my first choice. I originally wanted to purchase a netbook from Best Buy (either Asus' Eee, Dell, or MSI), but they were closed on Easter Sunday and so I went to Wal-mart and purchased one of these. Yes, I'm all about instant gratification. :-)
There was no usable demo on display and all I had to go by for my purchasing decision were it's looks. I could not even touch it since it was inside a display case.
I saw that the only model available was the version that came with XP and was okay with that. I'm not a Vista basher, but I'm certainly glad they did not try to cram it into this 1.6 GHz, 1GB RAM netbook. Without any research, I honestly thought I was purchasing a model with the Solid State Drive (SSD), but at 160GB, I later discovered it was a mechanical drive.
Upon opening and playing around with the netbook, I was pleasently surprised at the quickness of the boot time. The 8.9" screensize is not bad for viewing text as I originally feared. Once I was able to get to the internet, I was able to surf without any problems. Typing on the keyboard took some getting used to, but typos were kept to a minimum. In fact, I tried an Asus EeePC (can't remember model) prior and I couldn't type on it as well since the keyboard was smaller than the AAO. The buttons on the touchpad were a bit awkward (and it still is). However, it is not detrimental to me since I usually use the tap-to-click feature of the touchpad. Because this was a netbook, I wasn't expecting a stellar performance because of the machine's modest specs and I was correct. I'm sure the culprit for the "sluggish" feeling was the fault of the McAffee anti-virus that came pre-installed.
Nevertheless, XP did a fairly decent job so that I planned on keeping the OS and dual boot with a linux OS (I usually nuke the original OS partition because I dislike dual booting).
After some research on a potential linux OS I decided on Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR) and installing it went without a breeze once I figured out how to put the installation image onto a USB drive. I have one word after trying it out. WOW! The applications are speedy and surfing the internet was fast! The layout of the interface is nearly perfect. As a netbook, I prefer layout of UNR over the traditional "taskbar-start menu-task tray" setup. Boot up time of UNR was about ~20-30s and hibernation/wake up was about ~15s. Even though UNR was created for netbooks in mind, it is still a full fledged OS just like the XP version that originally came with the AAO.
I've never tried the linpus os that came with the linux version of this, but it's hard to imagine that it's anywhere close to what UNR has to offer.
Bottom line: I'm happy with my Acer Aspire One. With UNR, I'm an even happier AAO owner.Get more detail about Acer Aspire One AOA150-1126 8.9-Inch Netbook - White.
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