Review: Acer Aspire One

So after alot of soul searching, and accumulated eye strain from almost a year of looking at a 7-inch screen to surf the web, I decided to sell the EEE PC netbook and did so for almost exactly what I paid for it. I was even able to completely cover the cost of my new toy, and the EEE’s replacement, an Acer Aspire One!

And I couldn’t be happier!

The Acer Aspire One is turning out to be a significant upgrade on almost all fronts. So what are the details of this new souped-up netbook companion? Let’s list the main upgrade points…

I’m going from a 900-MHz Intel Celeron Processor to a 1600-Mhz Intel Atom Processor, almost doubling my speed.

From 512mb RAM to 1gb on two 512mb chips so I can use the Dual Channels, doubling my memory and it’s speed.

Ditching the tiny 4gb SolidState Drive of the EEE PC, the Aspire One sports a 160gb Hard Drive, a huge increase!

And although both models use the same graphics chip, I’m going from a 7″ 800×480 pixel screen on the EEE PC to the Aspire One’s 8.9″ 1024×600 pixel screen which is MUCH brighter!

So overall, I’m very happy with my decision to upgrade, and in the next few days to come I’ll be updating with my progress as I attempt to repartition this puppy to Tri-boot with Windows, MacOS X, and Ubuntu…