I've been setting up my kid's wee netbook

[blogslut]

An Acer Aspire One:



It's adorable and all but damn, that tiny screen makes me really appreciate my IBM Thinkpad. My eyes hurt.

[ghostsofgiants]

1. I have an AspireOne, I love it.

It's always fun to go back to my desktop after extended periods of using the netbook, makes my monitor seem huge, haha.

[blogslut]

3. Well, it is nice

It's got a faster processor, more drive space and RAM than my IBM desktop. But yow. That screen is rough on these old eyes.

No bigs. She's bringing me her old Thinkpad so I can cannibalize it. Wheee!

[Lady Effingbroke]

6. Yeah, a 15" monitor seems like the size of a movie-theater screen, doesn't it?

I got an Aspire One about a month ago. So far, so good.

[ghostsofgiants]

10. My desktop monitor is 20" so it's like "Holy crap, this thing is huge."

:P

[Lady Effingbroke]

2. I got a white one about a month ago.

In fact, I'm using it to post this reply.

I love it, but you are correct about the tiny screen. I have had to increase the font size on all my often-visited web sites so I can read anything. :silly:

[HopeHoops]

4. My 13 year old has a Dell netbook - I can't use the half-size keys but it works for her.

[Heidi]

5. You're gonna LOVE owning an Acer product.

My first laptop was a fully tricked-out Gateway that cost me several thousand (with software, extended warranty, etc.) I replaced it with an Acer Aspire 1640 -- a birthday gift three years ago -- and I don't have a single complaint. (But yes, I have an Acer notebook with a BIG screen.)

:thumbsup:

[blogslut]

7. Oh, it's not mine

My daugher bought it. I'm just setting it up because that's how I roll.

As for me, I think I'll always be a Thinkpad girl. I can't stand trackpads. Give me that eraser mouse, baby!

[MineralMan]

8. My previous notebook was a Panasonic,

and it had both the trackpad and the eraser mouse. Huzzah! Sadly, it went south. Now we have a Dell, and I pack a mouse when we travel. My wife likes the trackpad, but I detest it.

[blogslut]

13. I just can't live without my eraser mouse

All in all, I prefer IBM. From what I understand Dells are similar to IBMs, except no trackpoint.

Thing is, I only buy used computers. My Thinkpad is an A21 and my desktop is an old Netvista X41:

[ghostsofgiants]

11. I had an Acer laptop in high school, abused the hell out of it and it lasted me 4+ years.

A lesser laptop would have died after one with the abuse I put that thing through.

[Heidi]

14. Same here, and I'm 20+ years outta high school.

But my laptop has survived paint skills in the studio, overturned coffee, beer, tea, and some very rough handling by the security folks at Agno and Geneva airports.

I guess I do have one complaint: my Acer Aspire 1640 doesn't have a reset button. To reset it, you have to close the top, turn it upside down, pop out the battery and pop it back in again. But that's rarely necessary -- and I sort of figured out that it only happens SOMETIMES I'm using Word, Eudora, Photoshop CS2, Quark Xpress 8, IE, Firefox and Acrobat at the same time. :blush:

[ghostsofgiants]

15. Try holding the power button for a few seconds?

Usually does the trick.

[Heidi]

16. Thank you! I'll try that next time!

:*

(I'm usually so impatient for a reboot that pressing the power button for more than .00000000025 seconds would never have occurred to me. :rofl: )

[surrealAmerican]

9. These things can take an external monitor, right?

[Lady Effingbroke]

12. I think so - it has a VGA port.