I bought a 8.9" screen A150L-Aw...

White one with Linux, 120Gb HDD and 1Gb RAM. It was £150 off eBay with free post ages ago. I wiped it and put the Windows 7 trial on it straight away using the xBox 360 external HD DVD drive and added a bit of extra memory. Piece of cake and it's worked fine since... well, apart from when I swapped the HDD for a smaller one - see previous comment!

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/179804

Thanks, but that's bigger than 8.9.

On the Acer website I narrowed it down to the 8.9 inch version, which gave me the model A110/A150. When I clicked on that, there was about fifty of them! I know I want windows, but that's about it.

Difference between 110 and 150 seems to be that the former has a 16 GB (some models 8GB) flash disk for storage while the latter has a 160 GB hard disk drive. A flash disk is lighter and more robust, so it depends on how much storage space you need. If you transfer pics, music files &c to another pc ord external HDD, 16 GB is enough.

Some models have bluetooth and/or built in 3G modem. All have wifi, and you can always connect an external 3G modem to the usb port, so again it's up to your preferences what to choose.

Edited 9 February, 201016 yr by swedishskoda

just got a 6 cell battery this week, OMG it lasts a long time, i was used to about 1.5 hours tops on the standard battery, now i've got over 6 hours use

pity i still can't turn the damn fan off, i would get even longer run time then

just got a 6 cell battery this week, OMG it lasts a long time, i was used to about 1.5 hours tops on the standard battery, now i've got over 6 hours use

pity i still can't turn the damn fan off, i would get even longer run time then

Hi Ric!!

I was going to post a thread about bigger batteries for the Acer! I've been looking at getting one off ebay... You can get 9 cell ones too. Where did you get yours?

CCL computers

http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=39803&tid=gsearch

http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=46579&tid=gsearch

I just bought one of these 6 cell batteries:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/6-Cell-5200mAh-battery-Acer-Aspire-One-Series-White-/110423278446?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Computing_LaptopsAccessories_LaptopBatteries&hash=item19b5bd836e#ht_1908wt_962

Only had a few charges in it so far but comfortably manges 4 hours with the wireless on constantly. Thought it was worth the risk for £30.

I just bought one of these 6 cell batteries:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/6-Cell-5200mAh-battery-Acer-Aspire-One-Series-White-/110423278446?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Computing_LaptopsAccessories_LaptopBatteries&hash=item19b5bd836e#ht_1908wt_962

Only had a few charges in it so far but comfortably manges 4 hours with the wireless on constantly. Thought it was worth the risk for £30.

Does it only come in white?

Edited 4 May, 201016 yr by GAFF

Hi Gaff.

They do a black one too:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/6-Cell-5200mAh-battery-Acer-Aspire-One-Series-Black-/110430991625?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Computing_LaptopsAccessories_LaptopBatteries&hash=item19b6333509

You can get them cheaper too - about £25 - but you'd have to wait for it to arrive from China and maybe risk import tax. Hence why I went for this one.

I got a AAO 531 a few months back, great little thing, but I've just switched it from Win 7 to Ubuntu as an experiment. It's much quicker! Especially at playing video. Win7 struggled to play full screen video, but Ubuntu has no problem at all with it, tis great!

I've recently took ownership of the one i previously mentioned in this thread. Had a few teething problems with it. Battery wouldnt charge. BIOS update fixed that. Keyboard buttons were missing so i purchased a second hand keyboard. I also ditched Windows 7 and have stuck a Ubuntu Linux version on it called easypeasy. I must say that i'm quite impressed with it. easypeesy is, well, so easy to use even my 6yr old uses it now.