Acer Aspire One UMPC – small, good-looking, and cheap!
By Ben Robinson on Friday, August 8th, 2008 at 12:45 PM PST In Acer, Asus, Linux
For a while the Asus Eee PC ruled the UMPC roost, with it’s quirky but cool design, good features, and most importantly, LOW price point. Until now.
Acer has entered the fray with the Aspire One UMPC – this combines an 8.9 inch screen, full QWERTY keyboard, Linux O/S, and WiFi – all in a package costing about £234.99 (Expansys UK).
I’ve a feeling this burgeoning market is going to really explode in the next twelve months, so expect a plethora of models, to add to those out there already from Asus, Acer, and MSI.
If you would like to find out more about the Aspire One UMPC, you can go to Acer’s site here. If you want to buy one, then go to the Expansys site here.
This is the device I’ve been wating for years.
I had an HP Jornada 680, then got the Jornada 720, then I didn’t buy a Toshiba libereto because it was expensive and I didn’t want to pay for windows pre-instaled.
I bought a “normal” 15″ s creen and hevy laptop (~3.2kg) but I couldn’t carry it with me for averywhere.
Now I have this Aspire one for a month and I think it’’s the best computer I could buy till now.
It boot’s faster than any windows PC (even the ones 5 times more expensive).
It has a decent keyboard
It is really portable and light
It has no virus or anti-virus problems
It has a pretty decent webcam for skyping (in terms of general picture quality).